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February 2, 2017
Designers
Designer: Doshi Levien for B&B Italia. Product: Do-Maru. Standout: The foldable armor worn by ancient samurai warriors finds contemporary form in the armchair’s pieced leather planes.
Designer: Jean-Marie Massaud for Poliform. Product: Sydney. Standout: For a chromatic kick, the drawstring stitching of this Jetsons-like sofa’s removable stretch cover is specifiable in one of eight colors.
Designer: Ron Arad for Moroso. Product: Watergate. Standout: A doughnut (!) provided imaginative fodder for the continuously curvy chair, which was designed and named for the legendary Washington, D.C., hotel.
Designer: Daniel Libeskind for Flexform. Product: Adagio. Standout: Music, ever the leitmotif of the accordion prodigy turned starchitect, was summoned here in a sectional with rectangular or trapezoidal seats.
Designer: Philippe Starck for Cassina. Product: Caprice. Standout: The designer’s 2007 hit gets a workplace twist with a tulip or four-spoke swivel base, matte-finish shell, and quilted or smooth padded upholstery.
Designer: Philippe Starck for Cassina. Product: Caprice. Standout: The designer’s 2007 hit gets a workplace twist with a tulip or four-spoke swivel base, matte-finish shell, and quilted or smooth padded upholstery.
Designer: Jon Gasca of STUA. Product: Costura. Standout: An homage to Gasca’s late grandmother, a Balenciaga seamstress (costura is Spanish for “seam”), the upholstered chair on molded plywood frame features an inviting doubled-up-pillow back and impeccable tailoring.
Designer: Rodolfo Dordoni for Minotti. Product: Freeman Tailor. Standout: Memory foam meets goose down in an eminently cosseting modular sectional whose stitching detail recalls that of a duvet.
Designer: Philip Caggiano of Philip Caggiano. Product: Razor Rocker. Standout: Occupants young and old will enjoy the therapeutic sensory chair: Its colorful polyurethane wheels will keep kids enthralled, and adults will appreciate its knack for massaging tired muscles.
Designer: Mauro Lipparini for Casa International. Product: Belfiore. Standout: Who needs a bed when a chair is this comfy? Sink into the embracing hug of the fiberglass shell, topped by non-deformable polyurethane and a quilted cotton cover filled with natural goose down. Feet are painted metal with brass tips.
Designer: Mauro Lipparini for Casa International. Product: Belfiore. Standout: Who needs a bed when a chair is this comfy? Sink into the embracing hug of the fiberglass shell, topped by non-deformable polyurethane and a quilted cotton cover filled with natural goose down. Feet are painted metal with brass tips.
Designer: Claesson Koivisto Rune for Arflex. Product: Bonsai. Standout: Cloudlike seats boasting full, simple curves are inspired by bonsai. Some perch on slender metal legs, others on a wengé or oak platform that serves as an integrated coffee table that can be topped with a recessed stone or mirror plate or even a tall reading lamp.
Designer: Sol & Luna at Blackbarn Shop. Product: Poty chair and Kids stool. Standout: Hand-stitched Paraguayan leather forms the basis of two pieces designed and manufactured by Spanish company Sol & Luna, sold at Blackbarn Shop–New York designer Mark Zeff’s latest venture, a retail store filled with global finds inspired by his own earthy-minimalist East Hampton farmhouse-style dwelling.
Designer: Sol & Luna at Blackbarn Shop. Product: Poty chair and Kids stool. Standout: Hand-stitched Paraguayan leather forms the basis of two pieces designed and manufactured by Spanish company Sol & Luna, sold at Blackbarn Shop–New York designer Mark Zeff’s latest venture, a retail store filled with global finds inspired by his own earthy-minimalist East Hampton farmhouse-style dwelling.
Designer: Asher Israelow of Asher Israelow Studio. Product: Lincoln. Standout: The designer expands his line of lounge furniture–with a supple sling-seat chair whose angular frame echoes Philip Johnson’s 1964 performing-arts venue. Black American walnut, vegetable-tanned leather, and solid brass combine into two versions, one a symphony of natural browns and the other black-on-black.
Designer: Asher Israelow of Asher Israelow Studio. Product: Lincoln. Standout: The designer expands his line of lounge furniture–with a supple sling-seat chair whose angular frame echoes Philip Johnson’s 1964 performing-arts venue. Black American walnut, vegetable-tanned leather, and solid brass combine into two versions, one a symphony of natural browns and the other black-on-black.
Designer: Helena Sultan of Konekt. Product: Bianca. Standout: Formerly an award-winning filmmaker, Sultan proves equally adept at industrial design. Enfolding the sitter, Bianca’s steam-bent timber arcs (in oiled American walnut, white oak, or ash) are constructed with mortise and tenon joints. Almost anthropomorphic legs splay from the top of the faux-leather backrest straight to the floor.
Designer: Helena Sultan of Konekt. Product: Bianca. Standout: Formerly an award-winning filmmaker, Sultan proves equally adept at industrial design. Enfolding the sitter, Bianca’s steam-bent timber arcs (in oiled American walnut, white oak, or ash) are constructed with mortise and tenon joints. Almost anthropomorphic legs splay from the top of the faux-leather backrest straight to the floor.
Designer: Aristeu Pires of Aristeu Pires. Product: Angela. Standout: The computer engineer turned furniture designer channels Brazilian modernism with a handmade dining chair whose leather seat gives “a hammock-type hug that holds the spine just where you want it,” he explains. Brass details and a leg support add sparkle to the sustainably harvested Brazilian hardwood.
Designer: Aristeu Pires of Aristeu Pires. Product: Angela. Standout: The computer engineer turned furniture designer channels Brazilian modernism with a handmade dining chair whose leather seat gives “a hammock-type hug that holds the spine just where you want it,” he explains. Brass details and a leg support add sparkle to the sustainably harvested Brazilian hardwood.