Thos. Moser, handmade American furniture, recently announced that its Atlantic Chair, Hancock Table and Foreside Bed have won 2017 Good Design awards.
Founded in 1950 by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. together with modern design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, Good Design, the world’s oldest awards program recognizing design and manufacturing excellence worldwide, is organized annually by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The museum receives thousands of submissions from designers and leading manufacturers and industrial and graphic design firms, including Fortune 500 companies, from around the world.
“To be recognized by such a program of global design excellence is a significant acknowledgement for Thos. Moser,” said Aaron Moser, Thos. Moser’s president and CEO. “Being honored with three Good Design awards is a testament to the team’s collective talent, dedication and remarkable craftsmanship.”
Three winners
The Atlantic Chair was designed with a classic, yet contemporary context in mind, and can live comfortably in a range of environments. Influenced by the architecture of classic café chairs, the result is the product of several steam bent components crafted and assembled with a combination of machine and handwork. The chair also features a vegetable tanned leather seat and hand-stitched backrest, which offers a vivid interpretation of visible joinery.
The Hancock Table is a signature representative of the Hancock Collection, so named in honor of the Shaker village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. A modern interpretation of a classic Shaker trestle table form, the Hancock Table is distinguished by its distinctive structure, which employs two sets of close-set parallel legs at either end, each grounded by a stabilizing perpendicular hardwood foot. Crafted of North American hardwood and traditionally joined, the table will keep its integrity and beauty for generations.
For the Foreside Bed, the opportunity to revisit the spindle architecture in a bedroom setting is embraced, and designed through the lens of an evolving yet thoroughly Moser aesthetic. Like all new designs, the intention of Foreside is to embody and magnify all things Thos. Moser; a dedication to functionally driven objects, formal simplicity, the characteristic elimination of ornament, use and celebration of traditional materials and woodworking techniques — all with an emphasis on craftsmanship.
About Thos. Moser
• IN 1972, Tom Moser committed his life to craft. His mission was to establish a community that would allow craftsmen to make a living doing the work they loved. Today that community comprises some 70 fine craftsmen and women who are designers and makers of functionally driven, handmade furniture of the highest quality in both materials and woodworking expertise. Each Thos. Moser piece reveals not only how it was created, but also why it will last a lifetime, and in testament to its quality, each bears the signature of its maker. Thos. Moser operates six retail showrooms, including one in Freeport.
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