Bascule
Studio Œ, 2026

Tailored to move. Made for comfort.
The Bascule Lounge Chair pairs the relaxed aesthetic of a loosely fitted fabric cover with an innovative Vitra seat mechanism that offers automatic weight adjustment. The chair follows the body from an upright angle all the way to a deeply reclined, almost horizontal position.
"You can imagine how it will feel even before you sit down. For us, Bascule radiates honesty: it is as inviting to the touch as it is to the eye."
Relax in Motion
Bascule is the French word for "seesaw". Designed with a cleverly engineered tilt mechanism concealed beneath the padding and cover, Bascule moves with the body and has such a wide range of motion that users can reach a fully reclined position – for unparallelled comfort.
A chair that wears it well
For this extraordinary range of motion, Studio Œ – Anne-Sophie Oberkrome and Lisa Ertel – designed a generously cut cover that drapes over the structure like a jacket. Tailoring techniques from the world of fashion - originally developed for ease of dressing and freedom of movement - have been translated into the chair's design. Fabric covers are available in a wide variety of colours, as well as in duo-tone versions combining two different hues for the inner and outer chair faces.


"To emphasise the unique properties of Bascule's materials, we borrowed tailoring techniques from the world of fashion – designed to enable movement and ease of dressing."
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Volo
Dumet
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Studio Œ

Designers Lisa Ertel and Anne-Sophie Oberkrome met while studying product design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and founded Studio Œ in Berlin in 2021. Their practice operates at the intersection of functional objects, spatial interventions and exploratory gestures. They have been working with Vitra since 2025.




























































































