Rago - ( Cavallo)

The Rago chair is a minimalist lounge chair designed based on two simple surfaces and screw-based metal connections. Despite its extremely simple form, it maintains a strong and stable structure. Instead of being bent-formed, the body is made from CNC-cut plywood, which preserves structural strength along the material’s thickness. The natural layered lines of the wood are intentionally left visible, becoming part of the chair’s visual identity.
Its simple form and modular connections enable easy assembly and disassembly, enhancing portability and encouraging a participatory user experience. Ultimately, the design seeks to unite structure, function, and aesthetics in an honest and industrial language.
Rago is a minimalist lounge chair that achieves a distinctive, honest, and functional structure through the simplest possible forms. The design is based on the connection of two main components: two independent surfaces joined only by metal screw fasteners. Despite this simplicity, they create precise structural balance and high stability. This minimalist approach not only defines the visual identity of the product but also shapes its functional behavior and user experience.
Unlike many similar forms, the chair’s body is not created through bending processes but is formed from CNC-cut layers of plywood. This method preserves and strengthens the material’s structural capacity along its thickness—the direction in which plywood has its highest resistance. As a result, the product achieves a lightweight yet durable and reliable structure, despite its delicate and minimal appearance. At the same time, the natural lines of the plywood layers, left exposed on the surfaces, become an essential part of its visual identity. These continuous lines create a soft, unified rhythm, presenting the chair as a cohesive volume rather than a collection of separate parts.
The simplicity of the structure and connection method also enables the two main components to be disassembled. This feature makes transportation and handling easier, reducing the volume required for shipping. At the same time, user-friendly assembly turns the user into an active participant in the formation of the product, creating an experience that goes beyond simple fastening and fosters a sense of connection and ownership.
The central metal connectors are not merely functional elements; their visible presence expresses the industrial and honest nature of the design, revealing the relationship between components, structure, and construction logic. This project is an attempt to transform structure into beauty—where material, construction technique, and form simultaneously serve both functional and aesthetic roles.

The central metal connectors are not merely functional elements; their visible presence expresses the industrial and honest nature of the design, revealing the relationship between components, structure, and construction logic. This project is an attempt to transform structure into beauty—where material, construction technique, and form simultaneously serve both functional and aesthetic roles.