The Kevi office chair has set the scene across the world, from universities in the UK to primary schools in Denmark and design offices in Japan. After more than 60 years on the market, the Kevi office chair is as relevant today as it was in 1958.
Now, the iconic design comes in a new monocoloured version – presenting the Kevi office chair on castors with a base matching the seat and backrest in the colours Rhubarb, Hokkaido, Pine, Azure, Shadow, Black, Oyster, and Snow. The origin of the Kevi design dates back to 1958 when Danish architect Jørgen Rasmussen created the office chair on request from the company CEO of Kevi.
With the addition of the double-wheel castors, the chair quickly became an international success. Today, the double-wheel castor invention is used in many industrial designs, enhancing the well-being of millions of people across the world.
Dimensions SH 38-51 x D 56 x W 56
Material PP polypropylene Lacquered aluminium
Specification 5 year guarantee Danish Design
Design Jørgen Rasmussen
Shipping & Returns
Made to order — about 6 weeks
This piece is produced to order by the maker. Production usually takes about 6 weeks, after which we despatch it from London.
Because it is built for you, cancellation is limited once production has started on a configuration you specified. Please check the timing before you order — and ask us if the date matters.
Jørgen Rasmussen trained as an architect at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked from the beginning on a single question: how people sit while they work.
The Kevi chair of 1958 came out of that. Its best known part is the double-wheel castor he invented for it — a small mechanism that let a chair roll properly on more than one kind of floor, and which has since turned up under countless other designs.
The four-legged Kevi 2060 came much later, when Rasmussen returned to his own sketches for stackable seating. Montana produces it in oak, in lacquer over eight of the Montana colours, and upholstered.
The Kevi 2060 in front of a red Montana unit, and on its own beside a table. Rasmussen's stackable sketch, upholstered.
Jørgen Rasmussen trained as an architect at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and worked from the beginning on the question of how people sit while they work.
The Kevi chair of 1958 came out of that. Its best known part is the double-wheel castor he invented for it — a small mechanism that made a chair roll properly on more than one kind of floor, and which has since been used across countless industrial designs.
The four-legged Kevi 2060 came much later, when Rasmussen returned to his own sketches for stackable seating. Montana produces it in oak, in lacquer over eight of the Montana colours, and upholstered.
Danish and family-run since 1982, Montana makes one modular system in many colours, built entirely in Denmark.
Peter J. Lassen founded Montana in 1982 around a single modular system — a square box with rounded edges, missing corners and retracted fronts. His son Joakim runs the company today, the fifth generation of the family in furniture.
Every module is made on the island of Funen, finished in water-based lacquer since 2007, in a palette developed with the colour designer Margrethe Odgaard. The system carries the EU Ecolabel.
