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Designed by Philippe Starck
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.
Finishes:
Structure in polished aluminium, seat shell in painted black with seat shell in mahogany or ebonized mahogany with seat upholstered in leather in black, or seat shell in bamboo with seat upholstered in beige leather
Dimensions:
W505 x D560 x H810 mm SH450 mm
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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 […]
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.
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.
$3,000.00
Structure in solid ash wood stained grey or walnut or in solid walnut, upholstery in a selection of fabrics or leather
$2,330.00
In 1982, the designer Charles Pollock created a real design classic: Penelope. The American designer developed for Castelli a revolutionary chair from a technical and formal point of view: a steel-wire sled base supports a seat permeable to air which consists in a steel-wire fence coated with synthetic resin. The elastic effect of the base […]
$3,890.00
With Lanuda chair, Riccardo Blumer evolves his design research on seats, moving from the wood of Laleggera designed in 1996 to aluminium. Even if Laleggera and Lanuda embody the same principle of essential subtraction – the former employing minimal wood thicknesses in a box structure, the latter using aluminium sheets crafted following a reticu- lar […]