Dezeen showroom: Norwegian furniture brand Flokk has collaborated with design studios Anderssen & Voll, Hunting & Narud and Big-Game to create HÃ¥g Tion, a customisable task chair made from recycled materials.
HÃ¥g Tion was designed with hybrid working in mind and features a pared-back silhouette and customisable components that can be adapted to suit different environments.
Though HÃ¥g Tion is modelled on the typology of the "typical desk chair", it has been reduced to its minimum parts for ease of assembly and recycling.
The chair is made with up to 74 per cent recycled materials
"It was important that we create a chair that had universal appeal and that fulfilled the essentials of an office chair with a tilting mechanism, height adjustments and wheels," the studio told Dezeen. "With the focus being materiality, we wanted a chair that reflects only the essentials. It is not meant to compete with other task chairs with full adjustability where you can sit for days on end. It is designed with our modern workflow in mind, [which involves] changing tasks throughout a diverse work day."
Customisable parts allow HÃ¥g Tion to be adapted to suit different environments
HÃ¥g Tion is made with up to 74 per cent recycled materials and its parts were designed to be repaired and refurbished throughout its lifecycle.
According to the brand, 94 per cent of the chair's plastics were recycled, as is up to 98 per cent of the aluminium used for its str...