FOR THOSE WHO DON'T GIVE A FLYING SPUR WHAT AN OFFICE CHAIR IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE.
AUTHENTIC BENTLEY FLYING SPUR SEATING
ONLY TWO AVAILABLE
EACH INDIVIDUALLY COMMISSIONED · EACH BECOMES 1 OF 1
SOME LIMITED EDITIONS ARE PLANNED.
THIS ONE HAPPENED BY CHANCE.
We didn't decide to make 100.
We didn't decide to make 50.
We didn't even decide to make two.
WE FOUND TWO.
Two authentic Bentley Flying Spur seats became available to us.
That's the entire production run.
Could we find another pair someday?
Perhaps.
Could we find another pair next month?
We have absolutely no idea.
And that's precisely what makes AutoStuhl different.
We don't manufacture the rarest part of what we build.
We have to find it.
When something exceptional becomes available, we have one opportunity to transform it into something extraordinary.
Sometimes that opportunity comes around again.
SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T.
LET'S ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE BOARDROOM.
Yes.
That's a Bentley seat.
No, it didn't come from an office-furniture showroom.
No, it isn't “Bentley-inspired.”
And no, we aren't particularly concerned whether putting an authentic Bentley Flying Spur seat behind your desk is considered normal.
NORMAL LEFT THE BUILDING QUITE SOME TIME AGO.
This is AutoStuhl.
We take extraordinary automotive seating and give it a second life as functional automotive art.
And when two authentic Bentley Flying Spur seats crossed our path, there was really only one appropriate response:
WHY THE HELL WOULDN'T WE?
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T GIVE A FLYING SPUR.
Some people want their office furniture to disappear quietly into the room.
Neutral.
Tasteful.
Appropriate.
Nobody notices it.
Nobody asks about it.
Nobody remembers it.
This is not for those people.
This is for someone who walks into a room, sees an authentic Bentley seat behind the desk and thinks:
“THAT'S COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS.”
Followed approximately three seconds later by:
“I WANT ONE.”
Those are our people.
IT CAME FROM A BENTLEY FLYING SPUR.
THAT'S ALREADY A PRETTY GOOD START.
The Flying Spur occupies a wonderfully excessive place in the automotive world.
Bentley doesn't build transportation in the ordinary sense.
It builds automobiles where leather, craftsmanship, engineering, performance and occasion all have to coexist.
A Flying Spur can cross continents in remarkable comfort while possessing performance that would have been considered absurd for a luxury sedan not very long ago.
And somewhere in the middle of all that engineering sits the human being.
IN THIS SEAT.
Bentley built it for the Flying Spur.
AutoStuhl simply had another destination in mind.
Your office.
YOU WORKED HARD ENOUGH FOR THE BENTLEY.
WHY STOP ENJOYING IT WHEN YOU GET TO WORK?
Here's the absurd reality.
You may spend an hour in your car today.
Maybe two.
But how long will you spend working?
Eight hours?
Ten?
Twelve?
You work hard enough to appreciate extraordinary automobiles.
Then you arrive at the place where all that work happens and sit in...
an office chair.
We decided that equation needed some attention.
DRIVE THE BENTLEY WHEN YOU CAN.
SIT IN ONE WHEN YOU CAN'T.
Monday morning just improved considerably.
BENTLEY BUILT THE SEAT.
WE HAD THE AUDACITY TO BUILD THE CHAIR.
There are much easier ways to make an office chair.
We could buy a generic imported base.
Bolt the Bentley seat onto it.
Take some photographs.
Call it luxury.
We'd also have ruined the entire idea.
AutoStuhl builds a substantial purpose-designed fabricated steel foundation underneath the original Bentley seat.
Heavy-duty casters.
Engineered mounting.
Individually fabricated components.
Careful finishing.
Hand assembly.
Because if you're going to put a Bentley seat behind your desk...
FOR GOD'S SAKE, DON'T PUT FIVE-DOLLAR CASTERS UNDER IT.
Some things really shouldn't require explanation.
THIS MAY BE THE ONLY OFFICE CHAIR THAT NEEDS A VALET.
We haven't hired one.
Yet.
But look at it.
Authentic Bentley seating.
A substantial handcrafted AutoStuhl foundation.
Bespoke stainless steel detailing.
Individually commissioned.
Put it behind a serious executive desk and there's an excellent chance somebody walking into the room will stop before they sit down.
Good.
AutoStuhl isn't supposed to disappear into the room.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE THING THEY NOTICE.
“IS THAT ACTUALLY FROM A BENTLEY?”
Yes.
Flying Spur.
Authentic.
That's when the chair becomes a story.
Bentley built the seat.
AutoStuhl built the chair.
And those stainless steel Signature Panels?
THOSE WERE MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR ME.
Now we're having a considerably more interesting conversation than:
"Nice office chair."
MAKE SOMETHING THAT NEVER EXISTED BEFORE.
This is where the Flying Spur provides the provenance.
You provide the identity.
Your AutoStuhl can be commissioned with bespoke laser-cut stainless steel Signature Panels.
Your family crest.
Your company logo.
Your initials.
Your signature.
Your favorite verse.
Your personal motto.
Your Bentley's silhouette.
Your VIN.
A meaningful date.
Your company's founding year.
Or something nobody else in the world would have any reason to put on theirs.
YOUR STORY, PRECISION-CUT INTO STAINLESS STEEL.
Not printed.
Not embroidered.
Not a decal.
Because sticking a decal onto a Bentley seat would probably cause someone in Crewe to experience chest pains.
TWO DONOR SEATS.
BUT NOT TWO OF THE SAME CHAIR.
That's important.
Each Flying Spur Private Commission is completed specifically for its owner.
Your seat.
Your configuration.
Your Signature Panels.
Your commission number.
Your Certificate of Provenance.
Your story.
So although two authentic Flying Spur seats exist today...
EACH FINISHED AUTOSTUHL BECOMES 1 OF 1.
Nobody gets the other copy.
There isn't another copy.
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.
This is the part we can't manufacture.
When these two seats are commissioned, they're gone.
We cannot promise another.
We cannot promise another color.
We cannot promise another Flying Spur generation.
We cannot promise another pair will appear next year.
Because unlike conventional furniture, we don't control the supply of the most important ingredient.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS A GENUINELY LIMITED EDITION.
Not a marketing department deciding that 500 sounds exclusive.
Not a numbered plaque attached to something that could easily have been manufactured 501 times.
Two seats exist.
We have them.
We're building two AutoStuhls.
And then this chapter may simply be over.
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE PERSON WHO HAS EVERYTHING.
We hear that phrase constantly.
“What do you buy for someone who already has everything?”
Do they?
Do they have an individually commissioned executive chair built around an authentic Bentley Flying Spur seat, sitting on a handcrafted steel foundation, with their family crest precision-cut into stainless steel?
No?
EXCELLENT.
WE FOUND SOMETHING THEY DON'T HAVE.
And unlike another watch, another bottle, another piece of luggage or another object added to the collection...
they'll actually sit in this one every day.
That's precisely why it's interesting.
Nobody needs a Bentley either.
There are considerably cheaper ways to get from A to B.
But necessity was never the point.
Craftsmanship.
Engineering.
Individuality.
Provenance.
Scarcity.
And occasionally owning something simply because every time you look at it you think:
THAT IS FUCKING COOL.
That's the point.
ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OBJECTS DON'T ANNOUNCE THEMSELVES IN ADVANCE.
That's the dangerous thing about genuinely rare opportunities.
You don't know they're once in a lifetime when they arrive.
You only discover that later...
when you try to find another one.
Maybe we'll encounter another extraordinary pair of Bentley seats.
Maybe we'll find something even rarer.
Maybe we'll never have Flying Spur seats again.
We simply don't know.
What we do know is considerably simpler:
THESE TWO EXIST NOW.
And once two people commission them...
they don't.
