Slovenian furniture brand Rex Kralj is unveiling four furniture series at the VDF products fair, all based on the work of late midcentury architect and designer Niko Kralj.
The 1960 Armchair and Bar Chair, as well as the Mosquito Bar Stool, create an extended product family around some of his seminal seating designs.
Meanwhile, the Zelo collection by Australian designer Tom Fereday and the Ena Table by Denmark's Mikal Harrsen represent the brand's first collaborations, which go beyond Kralj's canon of designs, prototypes and more than 120 patents.
These new additions hope to bring the architect's design philosophy of finding beauty in simplicity and functionality to a new generation of furniture.
The collections are being officially debuted as part of the VDF products fair, a platform that offers designers and brands an affordable launch pad for new products. The sloped seat of the original Mosquito Chair is elevated to new heights without a backrest
The distinctive seat of the Mosquito Chair, originally designed by Kralj in 1953, is given even greater prominence by stripping away the backrest and turning it into a bar stool.
Its shape, which resembles an insect or bird caught in mid-flight, is raised above the simple plywood frame as if on a pedestal, to highlight this "winged" profile.
The product family designed around the 1960 Chair, on the other hand, adds additional details to transform its function.
Metal and plywood armrests top off the angular armchair, a...