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Aërias Chair
A SUSPENSEFUL COMBINATION
Aërias begins with the disciplined order of Viennese wickerwork. But instead of treating tradition as a surface motif, Tilla Goldberg and Ippolito Fleitz Group change the rules that make it recognizable. By enlarging the weave, much like a typeface that reveals a different voice at a different size, the pattern becomes graphic and almost architectural. What was once background turns into structure, a semi-transparent layer that sits in the room rather than simply occupying it. A quiet dance of shadows that shifts with daylight and movement, letting the chair participate in its surroundings.
The comfort is where the idea proves itself. Leather straps, stretched across a precisely milled and moulded wooden frame, work like a drum skin. Taut, responsive, and subtly yielding. The chair doesn’t ask the body to conform, it absorbs small changes of posture and makes leaning back feel natural. Executing a traditional weaving technique at this scale, in leather, requires hands that understand tension and alignment the way a musician understands pitch. The optional two-tone weave amplifies the pattern without turning it into decoration, it simply makes the construction more legible.
ClassiCon’s strength has long been its belief that refinement is a process, not a finish, and Aërias makes that visible. Developed in cooperation with three German artisanal enterprises, it sits at the meeting point of moulded wood, leather meshwork, and contemporary frame construction. An object shaped as much by dialogue as by drawing. Goldberg describes it as “a wanderer between different worlds,” and that feels right because it’s a chair that holds the memory of one of our oldest crafts while speaking in a new material language. In the hands of a studio built to move across disciplines, and led in product design by Goldberg’s insistence on a clear signature, Aërias becomes what furniture rarely dares to be: a practical companion at the table, and a small, convincing invitation to imagine.
Chair. Frame tubular steel, powder-coated in black (RAL 9005). Seat and backrest frame moulded wood, black lacquered, covered with weaving made of reinforced leather straps. Leather weaving optionally in one or two colors. Felt or plastic gliders, replaceable.
Dimensions
W. 55cm (22 5/8”) D. 54cm (21 1/4”) H. 82cm (32 9/32”)
DESIGNEr
Tilla goldberg / ippolito Fleitz group
Tilla Goldberg
Aërias Chair
Ippolito Fleitz Group is a multidisciplinary design studio with its headquarters in Stuttgart and offices in Berlin and Shanghai. The architects Peter Ippolito and Gunter Fleitz founded the studio in 2002 and, with a team of architects, interior designers, communication and product designers, internationally realize a wide variety of projects, buildings, interiors and products, communication and brand strategies: Ippolito Fleitz Group doesn’t think in terms of disciplines but rather develops integrated solutions. The studio has won more than 250 design awards.
Tilla Goldberg, born 1973 in Düsseldorf, has been a member of the management of Ippolito Fleitz Group since 2009 and is head of product design. With her team, she develops space installations, furniture, lamps and objects as well as materials and finishes. The claim: providing each individual project with an unmistakable signature.
MANUFACTURER
CLASSICON
Good furniture is like a good friend: somebody we like to have around and who accompanies us through life, wherever it may take us. We have been producing this kind of furniture since 1990. At the time, ClassiCon emerged from the traditional Vereinigte Werkstätten in Munich.
The licenses for the designs by famous designers of classic modernism, including Eileen Gray, Eckart Muthesius and Otto Blümel, formed the cornerstone for today’s collection. Soon, furniture by contemporary designers such as Sebastian Herkner, Neri & Hu, Konstantin Grcic and Jader Almeida followed. From the beginning, ClassiCon intentionally created a suspenseful relationship between classics and contemporary design. Owner Oliver Holy has had a lasting impact on the family-run company with his passion for design, architecture and art for almost 20 years now. Since mid-2024, he and CEO Timotheus Günak have been jointly managing ClassiCon.
Design, function and quality at the highest level plus a good amount of emotion – this is our vision: furniture design that convinces and accompanies people through their lives, something reliable and beautiful that is used and appreciated and, in the best case, passed down.
How much spirit of departure does a piece of furniture contain? At ClassiCon, you will only find innovative furniture that expresses the courage to depart from familiar ground. Some of the pieces carry big names, and each can look back on a proud design history, sometimes over several decades or even an entire century. Others, however, are only at the beginning of writing their own big stories.
We consider it our task to accompany and enable a multitude of such stories – now and in the future. For this purpose, we are continuously expanding our partner network and engage in intensive dialogs with international designers, often young and unknown.
Local craft businesses that bring design ideas to life through their skills and expertise play an equally important role for us. Through our production methods, we aim to bring this craftsmanship and wealth of experience to light and secure it for the future.
Designs from the ClassiCon collection can be found in museum collections around the world. Rare and precious originals by Eileen Gray, for example, are owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the National Museum of Ireland and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the meantime, designs by our contemporary designers have found a place in collections: classics of the future are exhibited or archived in various contexts. They represent formal innovation, originality and quality. With each selection, we are delighted about the success of the designers and the confirmation of our work.
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