Chairs · Design
The Ela Leather Chaise Longue from Giorgetti
A sculptural, six-position lounger from an Italian furniture house with over a century of craftsmanship behind it.
The Ela leather chaise longue, designed by Chi Wing Lo for Giorgetti, is a luxurious lounger built on a base of polished solid maple.
The carefully chosen combination of materials is one of its most distinctive features — the seat and pillow are covered in leather or saddle leather, sitting on a metal frame that connects to the wooden structure below. Its fluid shape and the contrast between materials give it a sculptural presence at first glance, with the comfort becoming apparent only once you actually sit in it — the same hand-cut leather standard the Barcelona chair is built to, a country and era apart.
Designed for comfort, the back frame and seat are built from structural polyurethane and cold-foam flexible polyurethane. At around $8,000 retail, the price includes a manual glazed nickel-plated metal and stainless steel mechanism under the seat that adjusts the chaise into six different positions.
Chi Wing Lo's design was built to draw attention — a piece with a strong personality and multiple sitting positions, equally suited to the private dimension of a home or office as to a more public, open space.
About Giorgetti
Starting from a small shop with around 8 workers in 1898, Giorgetti helped establish the Italian tradition of luxury crafted furniture manufacturing. For over a century, every product has been designed and made in Brianza, Italy — the region that remains one of Italy's centres for high-end furniture craft, in the same way Visionnaire's Branko chandelier traces back to a single Bologna workshop. Each Giorgetti piece is built to define and enhance the space it sits in, and the Ela chaise is a genuine example of why the maker is worth considering when furnishing a serious interior.
For another Italian house built on generations of family craft rather than a design-studio brief, see our piece on Promemoria's Scrigno bedside table — four generations of the same family, tracing back to 19th-century carriage repair.