Visit us in store for a wider selection of items not found online.
Lazada
Designed by Philippe Starck
Costes chair debuted in 1984, marking the beginning of the partnership between Philippe Starck and Driade. A designer, formerly unknown in Italy, creates one of the world’s most iconic object. Designed for the once homonymous, now disappeared Parisian cafe, owes its timeless success to the absoluteness of forms: a dark wooden embracing structure with three highly tilted legs.
Finishes:
Structure in steel painted black, seat shell in mahogany, ebonized mahogany, grey oak, striped wenge with seat upholstered in leather in black or bamboo with seat upholstered in leather in beige
Dimensions:
W475 x D580 x H800 mm SH470 mm
0
The cultured and omnivorous voracity of Philippe Starck faces, in Neoz collection, the poetry of solid wood and the traditional archetypes form is reviewed. The result is a timeless collection characterized by straight lines as well as by a strong image.
As a reinterpretation of Costes chair, King Costes alters its size and increase its firmness while confirming the absolute recognition of this image and its durability against trends alternation.
Neoz sofas, bed and day-bed emphasize the formal charateristics of the collection they belong to, by building a sort of living nest marked by the hem-stitched tissue whiteness, like past laundry, and the cushions’ softness. Large wheels, though, suggest it as an only termporary luxe.
Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez are known for their aplomb in treating furniture as a global decorative topic. Their pieces evoke a sedimented ?living culture rooted in borgeois comfort and hospitality. S.MARCO chair, MERAN armchair and VIGILIUS collection mirror the charming image of those spaces, once called fumoir.
Antonia Astori calls ‘memory furniture’ those pieces which tell something about people attention to indoor living. An attention expressed both by the recovery of disappeared archetypes, eg. canopy bed, and in precious materials manufacturing, eg. pleached roped steel headboard.
In the outdoor collection OUT/IN Starck with Eugeni Quitllet, proceeds along two paths: the high chair expands sizes, particularly height, transforming the object into a shell as a bulwark. With the sofa he doesn’t look for the iconic object, but he rather adopts sophisticated stratagems, usually intended for home interiors, for example the inclusion of […]