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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
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An armchair/character, with an organic outline, perhaps anthropomorphous, conceived with leather directly fixed on a fiberglass skeleton. A tribute, to the great Carlo Mollino and to the Danish design of the 50s, led by Starck with impeccable mastery. The frame is the result of a complex and skilful construction: a first outer shell made of […]
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