Cold-formed steel, quilted wool mattress
Model 04 — Steel chaise

Chaise Antuñes

A single sheet folded in a zigzag: the backrest curves down, becomes the seat and rises again to the footrest. There is no leg and no frame.

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Dimensions
L 198 × W 80 cm
Material
Cold-formed steel sheet
Upholstery
Quilted raw wool mattress, no industrial stitching
Finishes
Pigmented · Aged · Polished metal

The zigzag that holds it up

Origin

The Chaise Antuñes is one single line, folded until it becomes furniture.

In the sketchbook it starts as a zigzag stroke — noted on 04/08/26 as “Divã Antuñes”. Two folds, three planes, and the drawing is already the piece: backrest, seat and footrest in one continuous sheet.

This is the model where the structure disappears entirely. No leg, no crossbar, no visible weld: what holds up 198 cm is the rigidity the fold itself gives the steel, like a sheet of paper that stiffens once creased.

A quilted raw wool mattress goes over the metal, made by hand. It follows the curve without being fixed to it — the wool rests on the steel, and it is taken off to reveal the bare sheet when you want to see the piece as sculpture.

Sketchbook page with the Divã Antuñes drawing, dated 04/08/26 04 / 08 / 26
Workshop sketchbook — the zigzag noted as “Divã Antuñes”

Four stages

Process
01

Sketchbook

Sketch, dimensions and decisions — the piece drawn before it exists.

02

Sheet

Cutting and shaping the steel by hand, seam by seam.

03

Oxidation

The reaction of the metal guided to the right tone — the signature of the piece.

04

Varnish

The surface sealed at its exact moment, to last.

In the field

Original images and studies, no retouching
Chaise Antuñes in steel in the workshop, under the translucent plastic
The chaise with its quilted wool mattress, on the workshop floor
Pencil study of the chaise — Concept B, scale 1:20

With the wool it is a place to lie down; without it, a sheet-steel sculpture. The piece was drawn to work both ways.

Dimensions & prices

Spec sheet
Pencil drawing of the Chaise Antuñes with its dimensions: 198 cm long and 80 cm wide
FinishPrice
PigmentedR$ 15.290,00
OxidisedR$ 15.790,00
Polished metalR$ 16.620,00
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Manifesto
“Listen and understand, so you can create.”
Victor R. R. Mendes — maker at Galpón

The workshop works with its doors open. Every order starts with a conversation — the piece is drawn for your space, your use, your time.

Victor R. R. Mendes walking through the field beside a Galpón piece

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