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Apical. Reform. Betula.
Apical Reform’s Betula chair may just give the iconic Panton chair a run for its money.
![Betula chair natural side view](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Betula-Natural-side-1024x683.jpg)
Certainly they have the same susurrating silhouette.
![Panton Chair for comparison to Betula chair](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Panton-1024x410.jpg)
But while Panton’s signature achievment is that it’s molded from one single slice of extruded plastic, Betula takes the opposite tack.
![Betula chair angled view in moss](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Betula-green-1024x683.jpg)
The name—which refers to the genus of the Birch tree—suggests as much, since Betula’s form unveils as a collective assemblage of some hundred individual pieces of Birch ply.
![Betula chair in natural detail](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Betula-Natural-detail-1024x723.jpeg)
Apical Reform refers to the technique as “Fluid Deconstructivism”: “The chair’s seemingly simple yet arrestingly fluid form is revealed with each precisely engineered and hand-assembled layer.”
![Betula chair angled view in coral](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Betula-Red-683x1024.jpg)
Beginning with the dramatic S of the chair’s silhouette, Betula invites exploration via several senses. Touching it would certainly be a textural tour de force, let alone sitting in it. And for those who question how it would sit, Apical Reform offers the following: “The complex curvature of each subtly varied striation is designed for the comfort of the human form, despite its complicated joineries.”
![Betula chair side view in moss](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Betula-green-side-1024x683.jpeg)
See Apical Reform to find out more.
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