Not long after finishing up our trip and settling in Byron Bay we decided to start reaching our to suppliers, not really knowing what to expect.
What followed was months of back and forth, emails, sketches, measurements, tweaks, and a lot of learning on the go. We quickly realized that every tiny detail mattered more than we first thought. The angle of the backrest, the firmness of the fabric, the way it folded, even down to the stitching and colour tones — it all had to be right.
Our first sample arrived and, to be honest, it was a mix of excitement and reality. It was surreal for us to sit on our first physical chair instead of visualizing it in our heads, but at the same time very humbling as there was quite a bit wrong with it. The padding wasn’t as comfortable as we’d hoped, the materials didn’t feel as premium as we wanted, and some of the finishes just didn’t match the vision in our heads. But instead of being discouraged, it actually made things clearer. We now knew exactly what needed to change.
From there, it became a bit of a cycle of review, adjust, resample. Each version got us closer. We’d test them out everywhere, on beach trips, backyard hangs and camping weekends, but always making notes on what worked and what didn’t. Comfort and durability became a huge focus, because at the end of the day, it didn’t matter how good it looked if you didn’t want to sit in it for hours or it fell apart then it wasn't going to be a great camp chair!
There were definitely moments where it felt like it was dragging on. Months turned into years, but looking back now, that process was probably the most important part. It forced us to slow down and make sure we weren’t just putting out something “good enough.”
Eventually, we got to a point where everything clicked. The look, the feel, the functionality. It all came together in a way we were genuinely proud of. It wasn’t just a chair anymore, it was exactly what we had imagined back on that trip.
