sedan chair
Design Neri Hu,
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Glass fiber reinforced plastic, flannelette, genuine leather, solid wood
With their Sedan chair, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu demonstrate how varying impressions can be created simply by changing the material or the colour of individual elements in a design. The chair’s seat and frame are conceived as visually distinct, contrasting forms: the seat appears to be suspended in the wood or metal frame like a sedan chair, giving the design its name. Although offering the ultimate in comfort, the armchair is not a ponderous, immobile object, but rather a lightweight, flexibly arrangeable piece of furniture. The seat comes in monochrome and two-tone versions, with or without padding. In conjunction with the frame in wood or colour-lacquered metal, a wide variety of colour and material combinations are possible, to either harmonise with a given interior or form a deliberate contrasting accent. The designers have thus conceived the perfect chair for private use and public areas as lounges, waiting rooms, reception aereas - something they had long sought for the interiors of their hotel projects – providing distinctive, comfortable and yet mobile and elegant seating.
850 w | 740 d | 650 h
2006: founded in shanghai, neri&hu represents a new modern chinese aesthetic. founded by designers whose intent is to spark the potential in 'chinese design,' neri&hu seeks to evoke change. seeking top-quality materials and craftsmanship, most neri&hu products are hand made, a reflection of a place whose masters of trade can still be found waiting for patrons in the lanes of shanghai. neri&hu is the reinterpretation of the beauty in revealing raw material where clad is traditional, or exposing an object's frame where normally hidden, in examining history and its path, or in capturing an ordinary scene in a snapshot.
German fashion creative brand CLASSICON, founded in 1990 in Munich, Germany. ClassiCon has always sought to bring high-quality design works to every corner of the world, to meet people's most real and practical functional needs and timeless beauty, without being affected by fashion trends. Germany's industrial design and product design has always been a world leader, while CLASSICON is the leader in German furniture design. Its design is different from the short-lived fashion trend, and it is brave to pursue the ultimate originality, with both functionalism and timeless beauty. . ClassiCon believes that the most important thing is not the style but the quality. It refuses to put the function in the design after the beauty, while opposing the over-decoration, and always adopts an inclusive attitude towards the new design concept.
ClassiCon recognizes the power of design as a global language and is therefore happy to work with great designers from around the world to create a diverse, international product. Such as female architect Eileen Gray, industrial designer Norman Cherner, German architect Eckart Muthesius and so on.
ClassiCon is fully trusted by young designers. The Bell side table was designed by the new designer Sebastian Herkner for ClassiCon, which has become the brand's most iconic representative. Sebastian Herkner is a very talented young designer. Since 2008, he has appeared in the eyes of international audiences with his enthusiastic awards.
From the German Heimtextil “Newcomer Innovation Award” to the “Best Communication Concept Award” in Cologne 2009, from the German Red Dot Award in 2010 to the 2011 Delta Industrial Design Award “Delta Award”, he was included.
Sebastian Herkner's favorite design style is not the usual concept, "German design" gives people a very precise and rational cold and straight line.
When designing the Bell series side table, he decided to challenge the tradition of making table legs with the lightweight, fragile material of hand-made glass and making the table top with metal. However, the technicians who can blow out the exquisite hand-made glass have become less and less in Western Europe. He finally found the right craft in Eastern Europe, so that this wonderful series can be presented to the world.
Bell's success has also made the ClassiCon brand famous. This eye-catching brand has always created a number of stunning modern furniture with the values of “classic modern design”.
