lava bench
Design Karim Rashid,
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Glass fiber reinforced plastic
"LAVA, designed by Karim Rashid for the Spanish brand VONDOM, is a unique experience of beauty, luxury, performance and functionality seamless together. LAVA, is an undulating, cloud-like bench, a really huge organic blobular sculpture which is very difficult to obtain with the manufacturing process such as rotomoulding technique. LAVA, its avant-garde and original shape creates a pleasant, natural and relaxing gathering spot or connection in any interior & exterior space. For giving a more special touch in mentioned space, we can obtain it integra ting to LAVA a energy saving or LED RGB lamps. This option surely will leave fascinated a who observes it… a more spectacular and pleasure
environment."
2600 w | 1200 d | 500 h
Born in Cairo to Egyptian and English parents, and raised in Canada, Karim Rashid (b. 1960) now resides in New York managing his private design studio. With over 3,000 objects put into production, he has branched out into architecture and interiors with the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis Hotel in Athens. Rashid was an associate Professor of Industrial Design for 10 years and is now a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally. Rashid's award winning designs include the Garbo waste can and Oh Chair for Umbra, the bobble water bottle, and exhibitions for Deutsche Bank and Audi.
The Spanish company Vondom, headquartered in Palomar, is an internationally renowed producer of outdoor furniture, lighting, rugs and planters. Vodom is a dynamic company, highly innovative and always attentive to create the perfect equilibrium between design and technology. As a result it offers a series of products with strong characteritics, made of recycable materials and using innovative production methods. The company is collaborating with famous designers like Ramón Esteve who contrived numerous Vondom collections. All products are manufactured at the same production facility in Valencia, exported worldwide and sold by a growing number of authorized retailers. Vondom is regulary represented on all important international trade fairs: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, the Maison et Objet in Paris, the Hospitality Design in Las Vegas, the Furniture China in Shanghai, the Habitat in Valencia and many others.