The Sideways Series
By Rikke Frost
Organic shapes and elegant materials combine
The Sideways Series by Rikke Frost seeks to encourage conversation as an antidote to modern day digital connectivity. Blending her innate understanding of traditional craft with contemporary aesthetics, the collection demonstrates a mindful approach to furniture design that explores the relationship between materials. Inspired by the human connection to the circle as a symbol of balance and harmony, the Sideways Series brings a calm and organic expression to a variety of spaces.
Explore the elegance of the Sideways Series, a contemporary lounge collection, including a sofa, footstool, lounge chair and coffee table.
RF1904 Sideways Lounge Chair
The Sideways Lounge Chair presents an organic sculptural shape, elegantly crafted with a steam-bent solid wood backrest and paper cord detailing. With its curvaceous and supportive upholstery, the Sideways Lounge Chair offers a sense of sanctuary in its almost cocooning shape. Beautiful from all angles, Frost’s curiosity for traditional craft and materials makes this organic design suitable for any space.
RF1905 Sideways Coffee Table
Frost explores the relationship between contemporary materiality and traditional craft techniques with the Sideways Coffee Table. Echoing the soft curves of the Sideways Lounge Chair, this coffee table presents a sleek and elegant solid wood frame with sophisticated brass brackets to support a reversible wood and laminate or marble table-top, allowing for further customisation. A shelf underneath offers a space on which to set aside a phone or tablet to encourage analog togetherness.
RF1903 Sideways Sofa
With a striking asymmetrical shape, the Sideways Sofa features a steam-bent backrest shaped from solid wood and hand-woven paper cord. This light and elegant sofa design demonstrates Frost’s approach to human-centric design in which she seeks to create moments of calm away from the demands of modern living. The sofa provides space for dialogue with its sideways orientation accentuated by high-quality upholstery textiles that offer supreme comfort.
RF1903F Sideways Footstool
The Sideways Footstool displays clear references to the Sideways Sofa. Designed to be used in combination with other pieces from the series or as a stand-alone, the footstool exemplifies Frost’s organic design idiom through its round and harmonious silhouette. Expertly crafted from solid wood and upholstered in premium textiles, the Sideways Footstool adds contemporary character to a variety of lounge settings.
Rikke Frost
b. 1973
Danish designer Rikke Frost has always been curious about the combination of different craft traditions and types of material, a fact clearly reflected in her design portfolio where traditional and contemporary design is expressed in sofas, tables, chairs and lamps with an organic idiom. This holds true in the Sideways Sofa, which is Rikke Frost’s first collaboration with Carl Hansen & Son. Here, she blends classic materials such as woven paper cord and wood in a modern and functional design.
