Alteɾ Ego Collection 2023
This is the face of ours you’ve known so far.
Yet, there are more faces we have. Meet Alteɾ Ego.
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Art Director & Concept Creator: Jakub Szczęsny
Photographs: Ernest Wińczyk, Jakub Certowicz, Michał Warda
Illustrations: Michał Jońca
Marketing & Communication Team:
Magdalena Kicińska, Michał Mróz, Anna Zeman,
Aleksandra Gomola, Wojtek Stachowiak
PAGED is well-known for its reliable
products made of bentwood, solid wood
and plywood. If you asked an older Polish
person about the brand, you would prob-
ably hear that PAGED chairs or tables are
a perfect choice if you need lasting quality
and timeless design. This is because many
grandmas all over the country still have
our chairs in their living rooms, therefore
we are associated with something homely,
comfy and familiar. It’s been like that for
some 140 years.
This year we want to show you
a less familiar and drastically different
face of our brand. Because today PAGED
is where all vast experience is used to
build a new future. Here ideas meet and
collide. We make use of CNC machines
and experienced human wood benders.
Designers from various backgrounds freely
collaborate with craftsmen and engineers.
Fantasies come true.
Diversity of approaches and ex-
pressions is our statement. We neither fol-
low nor particularly care about any trends.
We believe that great designs are born out
of freedom of thought and positive inter-
actions between people who dare to leave
their comfort zones. In PAGED, this free-
dom leads to action and allows us commit
to a space you could call a playground for
designers. The space of hard work but also
of joy, lightness and hope for a better
future in uncertain times.
Alter Ego puts together our classic
pieces in their purest form – from the
Thonet bentwood chairs to the 20th-
and 21st-century models with their new
interpretations and new additions. They are
made not only by furniture designers but
also by interior designers and architects
from various generations. We decided to
put these vastly different ideas on one
stage and reveal them to you.
We hope you enjoy them!
Intro
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B-1870 / MONSIGNORE / DEMONIO
by Kacper Gronkiewicz
EVO / CONTESSA W. / EVO Corda
by Agnieszka Pikus
A-1840 / Cuore
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by Maciej Franta
B-1840 / PERLINE
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by Ola Mirecka
TOTEM
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by Jakub Szczęsny
A-1880 / FUOCO Blu / FUOCO Arancia
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by Studio Iskry
AXIS
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by Grzegorz Gancarczyk
SUDOKU series
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by Grzegorz Gancarczyk
ICHO / ICHO Mio
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by Nikodem Szpunar
NODO / NODO Corda
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by Grzegorz Gancarczyk
LINK / FLUFFY
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by Jan Lewczuk
ANTILLA Erba / Filo / Bruciata
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by Paged Team
TIGER
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by Paweł Jasiewicz
PLATO
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by Jakub Szczęsny
Supporting models:
PLASA
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by Nikodem Szpunar
RONDA
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by Dario Polaco
NOTE
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by Bartłomiej Lewandowski
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Contessa W.
Monsignore
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revamping author: Kacper Gronkiewicz
original design: Michael Thonet
Kacper Gronkiewicz is an architect and
interior designer, nominated twice to
German Design Award for his luxurious
restaurant designs. He is also an ex-
Dominican monk with a sense of humour.
When we asked him to participate in
the Alter Ego project, he enthusiastically
agreed and chose one of the lushest
period chairs from the Thonet collection,
B-1870, and turned it into a true fetish.
As Kacper explains, he was inspired by the
ecclesiastical fashion show from Federico
Fellini’s “Roma”, Baroque church interiors
and the gloom of Vienna streets from “The
Third Man” by Orson Welles.
Monsignore
B-1870
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Demonio
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revamping author: Kacper Gronkiewicz
original design: Michael Thonet
Demonio
B-1870
This is how the Demonio
and Monsignore saw the
light of day, or should we
rather say the light of the
full moon…
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Contessa W.
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Thanks to its simplicity and three legs,
the EVO is probably our most distinctive
chair, admired by many of our customers,
especially architects, interior designers and
restaurant owners.
Ten years after its introduction to Paged’s
collection, we’ve asked its creator,
Agnieszka Pikus, to revamp it by adding
a touch of luxury. This is how the two new
versions emerged: Contessa W. (guess why
the name!) and Corda, her slightly humbler
sister. Both are about noble simplicity and
dignity, so if you want to feel like
old money, look no more!
revamping author: Agnieszka Pikus
original design: Agnieszka Pikus
Contessa W.
EVO B-2940
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Evo Corda
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revamping author: Agnieszka Pikus
original design: Agnieszka Pikus
Evo Corda
EVO B-2940
The EVO Corda is
Contessa’s humbler
sister, yet she’s still full
of elegance and natural
dignity.
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Cuore
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revamping author: Maciej Franta
original design: Michael Thonet
Cuore
A-1880
“So, I was sitting one time outside some
typical Parisian café with a wall behind
me and the street life in front of me. The
pavement was so narrow that my round
table was every once in a while knocked
by passers-by. I started thinking that
maybe we don’t need that much space
to drink wine and eat a croque monsieur,”
said Maciej Franta, an award-winning
architect known for his fresh and light
concepts of residential buildings. What
seemed to attract him most was the
idea of a simple add-on that would turn
a classic, almost ethereal Thonet chair
into a piece of furniture for eating and
drinking with another person sitting in
another chair next to you. Think of the
Cuore as a sort of “social glue” that holds
people together. It allows them to have
good wine and enjoy the view, sitting side
by side or opposite each other, looking
deeply into each other’s eyes…
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Perline
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revamping author: Ola Mirecka
original design: Michael Thonet
Perline
B-1840
Ola is all about creative playtime. Most
of her designs address the need for an
agency to transform material objects –
from coat hangers to LEGO figures, as Ola
also works for that famous Billund-based
company. Her version of Thonet’s B-1840
model is about the compulsive urgency of
touching and moving bead-like elements
threaded into an armrest. As Ola put it,
“I remember the light of the springtime
entering through the window of the
dining room of our family house when
I was a kid. These long moments of
waiting for someone or something while
sitting at the table. Whistling, rolling
a ping-pong ball, tapping on the table top
and repeatedly kicking the bottom of the
table. And I can still hear my mother’s
voice in my head: Darling, can you please
stop doing this before I go nuts?”
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Totem
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new model design: Jakub Szczęsny
Totem
Jakub is an architect and an artist whose
work revolves around secrets and surprises.
Many of his designs change their shape or
appear to be something else while hiding
their true nature. This is also the case with his
project dubbed “the narrowest house in the
world”, aka Keret House, which was included
in New York City’s MoMA collection. This
also applies to the only piece in the Alter Ego
Collection that is not a chair. The TOTEM
is supposed to conceal its true purpose of
a jewellery box behind the look of an enig-
matic yet colourful sculpture. In fact, it’s a
stack of separate modular containers that can
be configured according to your fancy. What
is worth mentioning is that it was crafted
from leftovers from the production of sheets
of plywood also manufactured by Paged.
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Fuoco Blu
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