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Designed by Philippe Starck
There are objects that are universally recognized as icons. The Costes armchair, which in 1984 marked the beginning of the collaboration between Philippe Starck and Driade, and the consecration of the then-unknown designer in Italy, is certainly one such object. Designed for the now-defunct Parisian caf? of the same name, it owes its enduring success to the absoluteness of its form: an enveloping dark wood shell and three sharply angled legs.
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Many years ago, at its beginning, Lord Yo was simply a polypropylene easy chair with an aluminum structure, now it’s an icon. Recognized and recognizable anywhere and by anyone. It took Philippe Starck to carry out such an extraordinary stunt, built with soft curves and raised back, almost a throne, and slightly bent legs. Then […]
Created to complement the homonymous chair, Toy table, lives, indeed, an independent life thanks to the elegance of its stem, strongly tapered. A detail which, combined with the soft lines of connection with the top and the base, gives the piece an intense classical connotation.
Characterized by the embracing shell and stiletto legs, Lago is enhanced by it’s intensifying bright colors that deliberately smooth the entire surface.
A chair deliberately abstract in its composition and, for this reason, comfortable in unpredictable ways. Seemingly carved into a block, Toy speaks a language of sharp and broad plans that make it different from other molded polypropylene chairs. In this connotation Toy is unique even within the design corpus of Philippe Starck.
Mei is a lacquered wood chair that distills the Ming archetype into a clean, rectilinear silhouette with a quietly modern stance. Pared-back details are softened with an upholstered seat. It reflects a universal elegance that feels both familiar and new.
Design has recently begun to reread the last 80s, a period full of hedonistic sings. Ludovica and Roberto Palomba embrace this input in a collection for driade that combines some of this aesthetic hallmarks as straight cast-aluminium structure elegantly painted and damier decoration.
The sectional sofa is the theme characterizing typological design since the 90s of last century. Ludovica and Roberto Palomba confront it, emphasizing the sense of suspension from the ground, thanks to a thin metal structure and developing, in the version with terminals, a great peninsula from the gracefully asymmetric shape.
The Dunas xs seating sellection arises from the pursuit of a transversal design that can take its place amongst the most diverse spaces and styles. Refinement, neutrality, formal clarity and essential elegance are the marks of identity of this versatile collection of chairs and armchairs designed by Christophe Pillet.