The leather on the Enfold Chair is held in place by a single row of horn buttons at the back of the frame. Danish designer Lærke Ryom ruches the hide into vertical folds, draws it taut around the frame horizontally, and cinches it at the rear, where the buttons gather it into one seam. The chair is produced in an edition of eight and is available to order through Innenkreis, the gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Conventional upholstery works toward the opposite effect. Hide is stretched smooth over padding and fastened out of sight, so the covering reads as one continuous surface and the method of attachment disappears. Ryom leaves the closure on the outside of the chair and lets the leather crease, in the manner of a garment buttoned shut over the body it fits.

The method continues work Ryom introduced in Raiments, the opening exhibition at Innenkreis, where she cut and constructed leather as tailoring that dresses a frame. Enfold applies that approach to a chair built on familiar Scandinavian terms, with clear proportions, a comfortable seat, and construction that stays legible.

The folds change how the chair takes light. Each vertical pleat catches it along one edge and falls into shadow along the next, so the hide registers as texture across the whole body of the chair. Because the same continuous skin wraps both the base and the seat, there is no line where structure ends and covering begins, and the gathered leather sets the chair’s outline as much as the frame beneath it does.