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The Ollie Chair: Shape-Shifting Seating

Created by RockPaperRobot

The Ollie Chair unfurls with a flourish and retracts instantly with the pull of a string. Handsome and customizable, it’s a versatile primary or secondary seat for homes and businesses, inside and outdoors. The chair's slatted wood seat, called a tambour, allows it to fluidly transform between ergonomic and flat profiles; its aluminum body provides a robust, retractable structure with a sleek look. Out on the balcony, down at the corner coffeeshop, around the co-working table, in a cozy kitchenette, court side, poolside, or stored side-by-side on the wall, the Ollie Chair adds functional flair to any space.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

A timely thank you: Assemble your perfect BBQ set!
almost 6 years ago – Tue, May 08, 2018 at 11:18:09 PM

***** Posting this here in case anyone missed the email we sent out. ***** 

Hi Everyone!

With summer right around the corner, we wanted to extend a warm thank you to our KS backers. 

From now through Memorial Day, use code SUMMERLOVE at checkout for $125 (over 30%) off each chair purchased. You can manually enter it at checkout or just click that link which should apply it automatically. 

The sky's the limit...
The sky's the limit...

Stay tuned for updates on our Ollie Table, Ollie Barstool, and Ollie Bar Cart, all to be out this year as well!

#sharethelove #sharethechair, 

Jess & the RPR Gang

P.S. We’d love to see how you use your Ollie Chairs – email us some pics or tag @rockpaperrobot on social media!

Important Update to EU Backers Only
over 6 years ago – Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:25:31 PM

This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.

Ollogistics (okay that doesn't work as well as I would like, but you get it).
over 6 years ago – Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:27:19 AM

Hi Everyone, 

Guess what???  All the chairs have shipped! 

Let me qualify that:  All the chairs have $(&#)@* shipped!!! 

Actually let me qualify that a little bit more:

  • By now you should all either have your Ollie Chairs or some notification they have shipped. (NOTE: Chairs with Vandal Gummy Bear Tambours will ship out this week so you will be getting notice in a few days). 
  • EU backers please send me your VAT receipts for reimbursement if you have not done so already. Unfortunately we have no visibility into what you are charged as it varies per country. If you don't have one, I can do a flat $20 no questions asked, but let me know either way. And if you don't care about getting that reimbursement (as some of you have already indicated) THANK YOU! It is a big help to us. 
  • Custom tambours to US domestic backers will ship out Monday (you will get another email with tracking info). 
  • Custom tambours to non-US backers will ship out by Friday (you will get another email with tracking info). 
  • Also: please excuse the over-packaging. We are still working out some kinks (mostly with UPS) so our priority was to get your chairs to you in one (aka 112 connected) piece(s). I hate packaging waste so I encourage you all to wrap your holiday gifts in, build forts with, and recycle the materials. My sincere apologies to all marine life...my next company will around fixing this situation for you critters.
  • We are admittedly behind on buying and naming our plants and finishing the Lady Gaga chair, so if you backed those tiers you should be getting your pictures/emails by mid December - right when we need a burst of life around!

As always, we welcome any feedback you have (good and bad) and are here for you in great appreciation of the bet you took on us and the patience you have so generously shown us.

Don't be distressed....

Feeling distressed....
Feeling distressed....

...this isn't good-bye.

The RPRians

The Ollies are Coming
over 6 years ago – Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:25:41 PM

Hiya, 

Just a quickie here: 

  • Many of you have received your black and white chairs by now (except for outside of North America and a few with mixed color orders.) But don't fret if you haven't! They are shipping out next week. Yay.
  • Most North America destined silver chairs will be shipping out next week as well. You'll have them by mid-Nov.  
  • Custom tambours will leave from our studio by the end of this week. 
  • Non-North American orders are heading to our international fulfillment center at the end of next week and will then ship from there. I'd estimate end of Nov at the latest for receipt of those. 
  • For those of you who bought us plants, we are starting to acquire and name them and you should get a fun email by mid-Nov...About the same time Lady Gaga will get her chair.  

Thank you so much to everyone who has sent in pictures of their chairs in situ. We love seeing them. From here on out put yourselves in the pix so we can see you too.

More in a week or so.....

Je$$ and the RPR Gang

Timing Update
over 6 years ago – Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 09:43:01 PM

Helloooo from the factory floor!

This will be a quick update. 

A handful of you will have received your chairs by now. We hope you are pleased and would love any feedback on the product or process. This was a test of our Ollie Broadcasting System. 

  • Today we started shipping Ollies with white bases to Canada and US backers.
  • At the end of next week, we will be releasing chairs with black bases to Canada and US backers.
  • Silver chairs will leave around the 25th to Canada and US backers. (Some of these went out already, but we noticed there was too much color variation in the particular silver powdercoat we were using so we decided to switch it). Don't worry, you won't notice the difference. 
  • All international backers (outside of North America) will likely ship out right before the end of the month.  
  • All custom tambours will come separate from the chairs because they leave from our Brooklyn studio, not the factory in Montreal. They ship on a rolling basis starting next week. If you receive your custom tambour before your chair then, well, that happened.

We are implementing our e-commerce and fulfillment site. I am trying to enter you all into the system so you can get cool tracking notifications. In the event that you get an uncool notification/email (e.g., you get notified that you just paid or perhaps that you can track a chair that you are actually already sitting on), please bear with us. In fact, forward it to us so we can debug. Even if the formatting is wonky - TELL US!

I'll send some more pix soon. 

Let me know if you have any questions. Don't actually ask me the questions, because I am too busy to answer them...but feel free to let me know if you have them. ;)

Jess