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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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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.
Even a classical image, as a railed chair, in the hands of Philippe Starck acquires a particular connotation. In Pip-e, the sequence of horizontal elements, which create the seat and back definetly, takes on a strong chiaroscuro and goes, unexpectedly, to accompany the bending of the knees.
Anapo’s collection of tables, in the rectangular and circular version and in different sizes including a side table. Its inspiration lies in the Sixties and in a specific idea of middle-class home torn between rigour and softness, luxury and functionality, indifferent to passing fads.
The Genoa seating collection , designed by the young Cesare Ehr , expands with the stool and chair versions with armrests, also in the outdoor variant . The characterizing element is the ‘one line’ backrest, obtained by the curvature of a single metal tube which – with its virtually infinite sinuous line, extended in this […]
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.