Make precision feel like a continuous curve.
The Neva chair’s arm, back and front leg read as one flowing gesture. Making that appear simple requires careful work at the places where separate pieces meet.
In practice. Designed by Croatia’s Regular Company and produced by Artisan in Tešanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The chair was designed in 2012 and launched in 2013.
What to keep in view
Solid wood and careful manufacturing do not by themselves establish a product’s lifetime footprint. The chair is not presented as a tool-free, fully disassemblable design.
Connect digital cutting with skilled finishing
Regular Company designed Neva for Artisan, a wood manufacturer in Tešanj. The chair’s continuous-looking outline depends on shaped components and carefully resolved joints. Its design account describes five-axis CNC machining alongside manual finishing.
The machine provides repeatable geometry; human work resolves the surface, assembly and tactile finish. These are complementary stages. The final form is neither evidence of entirely handmade production nor a reason to make the craft contribution invisible.
Judge the joint as well as the silhouette
The interesting achievement is that technical decisions become an everyday experience: a place to rest an arm, an edge that feels comfortable and a structure that reads clearly from different angles. The manufacturing process serves those encounters.
This is also a European collaboration with a specific geography. Croatian design and Bosnian production both matter. Giving the manufacturing country its place in the story recognises the expertise needed to turn a drawing into a consistent object.
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