It turns out that the inspiration for the Lo-Borg and other pieces in this casegoods line came from a primal rather than futuristic fantasy life-form. According to Dine, “My very first inspirations were Fred Flinstone furniture, pieces that were carved out of one piece with no doors, just openings. Everything was reductive, not fabricated; it […]
Category: Design Secrets: Furniture 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered
Work desk systems,” says Dario Antonini of Orange 22
“I’d been designing work desk stations and modular systems for companies, and that got me to start thinking about the future of work and what a desk and work would mean or stand for in the future,” he says. “Being so involved with computers and technology as I am, I couldn’t separate my work from […]
Make handbags. We got inspired by finding some at flea markets in Asia,” says Lars Dahmann of Lebello Design. “And I’ve always liked the minimalist aesthetic of Asia.”
What he ended up with instead of handbags were crayon-colored, woven plastic ottomans, manufactured in Asia. Playfully dubbed Marshmellows, this product was less the result of a desire to make furniture, than the desire to make, well, something. “We’d tried designing products for export into the American market,” Dahmann says, “But we decided to make […]
Vero Sofa, Christian Biecher “I wanted to have a very well-drawn sofa and armchair,” says Christian Biecher of the initial inspirations for his Vero sofa
“I wanted something modern and classic, that also went back to the history of modern design, the roots of geometry, the pure shapes of a square, triangle, and circle.” He managed to achieve this tall design order by a somewhat surprising focus on simplicity. “I wanted something that was calm, almost banal, and yet precisely […]
Trix Sofa, Piero Lissoni “The idea was to design one moveable piece,” says РІЄГО Lissoni of his Trix convertible sofa. “If you like, it’s a really big pouf. It’s possible to sit, drink, make love—why MOt? — see the television.”
Trix is a set of connected cushions that folds open or shut, allowing it to become a chair, sofa, or bed—there’s even an integrated, removable, round tray. “Open one part, and then you transform it into a chair, move again and transform into an armchair, move again and transform into a bed,” says Lissoni. “The […]
ISO Sofa System, Michael Sodeau “The sofa really came about through the design of the leg profile,” says Michael Sodeau of his Iso Sofa. “It’s a weird, awkward shape,” he says, “a cantilevered profile.”
People might live in the future,” recalls Sarah Fels of the beginning of the Fritz sofa project. “The initial brief was SO broad, it was almost not a brief at all.”
While she often begins her designs with some kind of research, “this had more to do with thinking about poetic inspiration or images that stuck in my mind. I was thinking about a fairly diverse bunch of images, from the deco Chrysler building angularity, to the tech, cubist movement in architecture that produced all these […]
So well with children.”
Dreaming, stargazing, and contemplating the results of another project were the genesis of her Crescent Sofa. “I did a very big round rug,” she explains. “The colors were, I think, at least five or six different dark blues. There was a lot of joy and happiness for all these blues to be mixed, because you […]
Comet Sofa, Vladimir Kagan Tve always believed in furniture liberated from the walls of а ҐООҐП,” says Vladimir Kagan. “Most of my clients were collectors of art, so they needed to liberate the walls for art work.”
With the Comet Sofa, Kagan continues his decades-long tradition of creating sensuous sofas that sit in the middle of a room and allow for a wide range of seating configurations. “These free-form designs have been the driving force of my designs,” he says. “I like to make something that can be moved, rearranged, and allows […]
Aspen Sofa, Jean-Marie Massaud when describing his design inspirations, Jean Marie Massaud returns again and again to metaphors from ПЭШГб and literature
“When you look at nature and how life is growing, it’s not square,” he says. “It’s an ecosystem which is very rich in terms of life. It is the same thing as composing a sentence. This collection is speaking about furniture as a reef, a living thing, a solution that lets you use space in […]