Upholstered Easy Armchair / KeSa Ragi

Products in the KeSa Upholstery Collection are available in a set of fabric colourways designed and produced by textile designer Padmaja Krishnan. The colourway seen in the image above is called KeSa Ragi (ragi, a type of food grain used extensively in Southern India, has a distinctive greyish brown colour).

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.

Phantom Hands developed a special wood finish, P1 Black, to complement the KeSa Ragi colourway.