Carlos Pereira of Induse Design Industrial makes the Rasa Collection for More Contract: bentwood chairs, stools and lounge pieces in ash or beech where steam-bent grain carries both the structural and visual proposition.
Bentwood works because the grain of the wood follows the curve. In Rasa, Carlos Pereira starts from that mechanical fact and builds a seating collection around it: ash or beech, steam-bent into continuous surfaces, the seat shell and backrest each a single piece that shows its process in the parallel lines of grain running from edge to edge. The chairs in the photographs are pale, the wood barely finished, close to the raw material. Under raking light in the warehouse setting Paulo Carvalho chose for the shoot, the grain appears as texture rather than colour.
The structural logic of the chair is visible at the joints. Four square-section legs meet the seat through a simple mortise that shows no reinforcement, no metal insert, no hidden hardware. The backrest is a single curved plank, its ends trimmed at an angle that allows it to meet the rear leg posts squarely. The geometry is not complicated. What makes the chair read as precise is that every dimension is held consistently across the family: the dining chair, the bar stool and the lounge chair share the same joint vocabulary, scaled but not reinterpreted. "The proportions are balanced," the studio notes, "and the curved backrest supports the body with an almost imperceptible naturalness."
Production combines CNC cutting with hand assembly and finishing. The CNC stage is where the grain orientation gets set: each component is cut so the bending radius runs with the grain direction, not against it. That is not an aesthetic decision; it is what prevents the wood from cracking during the steam-bending step. The result is that the material honesty visible in the finished chair is an outcome of the manufacturing sequence, not a styling choice applied after the fact.
The bar stools introduce a secondary material in the footrest ring: a thin bent steel rod, lacquered to match the wood tone, that connects the legs at mid-height and provides lateral bracing. It is the only element in the collection that is not wood, and its presence is minimal. The upholstered seat cushion, available in leather or fabric, sits on the seat shell without obscuring its profile. In the stained beech version, the leather cushion is tan, a combination that reads in the photographs as warm without being domestic.
Rasa is manufactured for More Contract, a JMS Group brand, and positioned for hospitality, workspace and residential contract. The collection covers the seating typologies that repeat across those sectors, and the CNC-assisted production allows custom stain finishes without changes to the tooling. The bench version visible in the warehouse images confirms that the collection's proportional system extends to multi-seat pieces without the joint logic changing. More than a material exercise, it is a design that makes its process visible.
