The "Nu Santa Fe" chair is the forerunner of the next generation of Southwest-Inspired furniture design. On the surface it appears to have broken with tradition, in actuality it remains closer to the forms and colors of our region prior to 1880 and the arrival of the railroad along with the tourism industry and the commodification of Native arts as souvenirs of the "exotic" New Mexico experience.
The aim of this design is to re-imagine the traditional visual language of Pueblo architecture and textiles, incorporating these forms and colors in a new way, avoiding the clichees of the Santa Fe style while still acknowledging the rich design traditions of our region. The shape is of our time, is not nostalgic nor is the chair's surface woven/embroidered with a traditional Pueblo or Navajo blanket pattern in a failed attempt at conveying authenticity. The chair's bulkiness and round edges suggest the forms of Pueblo architecture, in this way the design holds its roots in the most pure structural forms of our region, yet the design is contemporary and fresh, avoiding the dreaded nostalgia of the Pueblo Revival style with which we are all too familiar. The use of traditional colors in the absence of any traditional blanket designs allows the design to be liberated from the worn-out notion of adding traditional patterns to non-traditional objects, while still maintaining a visual connection with the past.
The chair is available in a range of colors based on the primary dyes used in traditional Pueblo and Navajo textiles: Indigo, Chamisa(golden yellow), Cota(rust orange), Broom Snakeweed(bright yellow), and Cochineal (bright red-shown).
Constructed with kiln-dried maple and a linen fabric covering.
Dimensions: 31"x41"x36"
Price: $439
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