Color

Black

Material

Leather, Wood

Brand

IKEA

Nice Scandinavian ebonized bentwood & black leather Poang chair with matching ottoman by IKEA. Delivery available. Noboru Nakamura, a Japanese product designer who worked with IKEA for several decades, amassed an impressive porfolio of furniture – in particular the POÄNG chair, which remains one of IKEA's most popular and recognisable products to date. The POÄNG chair, first known as POEM, was launched in 1976 to immediate success: appearing on the cover of the 1977 IKEA Catalogue, and enjoying prominent features in virtually every edition printed over the following decades. Key to POÄNG's long reign has been its easygoing looks and most of all the undeniable feeling of comfort and enjoyment upon taking a seat. Discussing the chair back in 2016, Nakamura explained that the U-shaped cantilever design created a gentle flex that would allow the sitter to swing in an elegant way. "A chair shouldn't be a tool that binds or holds the sitter," he said. "It should rather be a tool that provides us with emotional richness, and creates an image where we can let off frustration or stress by swinging."