A single arc, turned on a lathe by Master Heo in his Yangju workshop. Continuous. Refusing the geometry of joinery. The hand reads it as one breath.
The bronzed ash is selected from a single tree, felled in winter when the grain is densest. After the lathe, the surface is sanded with palm-pressed paper through eleven grades — the last so fine it produces no dust at all.
Then comes the leather. Each Halo is upholstered by hand by a single bookbinder, not a furniture maker. Over eleven days the full-grain hide is wetted, drawn, and pressed into the seat shell with a tool no wider than a thumb. Where the leather meets ash, no thread is visible. There are no staples.
The result is a chair that does not ask to be sat in. It asks to be circled.
Halo is offered in a numbered edition of twenty-eight. Each piece is signed by Master Heo on the underside of the seat shell, and dated in the year of completion. The first eight have already shipped to private collections in Seoul, Antwerp, and Kyoto.
