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Upholstered Easy Armchair / KeSa Indigo

Designer Chandigarh Collective/ Padmaja Krishnan
Collection KeSa Upholstery Collection
Year/Period 1955
Dimensions ( cm / in ) H 30.8 / D 33.1 / W 27.8 H 78.0 / D 84.0 / W 70.5
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Product Description

Products in the KeSa Upholstery Collection are available in a set of fabric colourways, designed and produced by textile designer Padmaja Krishnan. The blue-grey colourway seen in the image above is called KeSa Indigo.

The fabrics used for the KeSa Upholstery Collection are upcycled ‘patchwork textiles’. They are created through the process of collecting discarded cotton fabric scraps and new fabrics, arranging them with care into specific patterns, and sewing them one piece at a time, first by hand, then by machine. Making this fabric is a laborious process as each yard of the fabric needs to be designed individually every time. This intensely time-consuming process of stitching and making enough fabric for one chair is done entirely by women artisans in Padmaja’s workshop in Mumbai. Therefore, every piece we make as part of the KeSa collection is truly unique, even though it belongs to a specific colourway.


A specially-designed cushion is optionally available for each chair model in the KeSa Upholstery Collection. The cushion is designed keeping in mind the ergonomics of the Easy Armchair, and is called the ‘Manju’ cushion.

A special wood finish called P1 Black has been developed to complement the KeSa Indigo colourway.

Product Specification

Standard dimensions H 30.8 / D 33.1 / W 27.8 H 78.0 / D 84.0 / W 70.5
Materials Teak (Tectona Grandis) Patchwork KeSa Indigo Fabric Polyurethane Foam Pinewood Inner Frame Metal Components
Product variants N/A
Other information Arm Height - 25 63.5 Seat Height - 16.6 42.0
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Upholstered Easy Armchair
Upholstered Easy Armchair 2
Upholstered Easy Armchair 1

Product Options

The Upholstered Easy Armchair / KeSa Indigo is available in the Indigo patchwork fabric in 100% certified organic cotton and the P1 Black wood finish.

The P1 Black finish was specially developed to complement the KeSa Indigo colourway. This wood finish is achieved in three steps. First, a waterborne stain is hand-applied, layer by layer, on sanded wood. Second, the stained wood is lightly brushed with steel wool to take off a thin layer of the stain. The third and final step is the application of a hard wax oil.

Upholstery - KeSa Indigo

Colour swatch of KeSa Indigo
KeSa Indigo

Wood Finish - P1 Black (Teak)

Colour swatch of P1 Black
P1 Black

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