Tanka

Carlos Tíscar

06/03/08. (Sala 256)

The Tanka chair by Concepta designed by Carlos Tíscar. The process of finding the best way to manufacture the chair, has taken more than 4 years dialogue between Concepta and the designer. The search for excellence and perfection even in the smallest bit of detail, as well as ergonomics and resistance, are key features that characterize Concepta and that make them pioneers in the contemporary designer furniture field, since 1973 when founded by Carlos Jané Camacho.

Carlos Tíscar, the designer, comments on the Tanka: Tanka is Japanese terminology which transmits the idea of “brief” or “simplicity of shape” (…) I think the Tanka chair reflects the same idea, which doesn’t contradict itself with the richness of influences visible: it has something reminiscent of the Thonet by Hoffman, the American Windsors, but it also reminds us of Gaudi’s ramified pillars of the Sagrada Familia, and the “Teak style” of the 50’s, especially the Ypsilon chair by Wegner”.