colourform bench
Design Scholten & Baijings,
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Observing how ubiquitous—but not always friendly—lounge furniture can be, Scholten & Baijings worked like sculptors, painstakingly developing a new lounge geometry: the right shapes and dimensions to support working or relaxing in exceptional comfort.
At work and at home, we need communal spaces where we can connect with one another when it suits us, and work around one another when it doesn’t. ColourForm modules offer different back heights to help create a varied landscape. Use high-back stand-alone components to punctuate settings with moments of privacy, and low-back modules to create configurations that encourage collaboration. Combine them to carve interesting topographies or to guide guests gracefully through a space.
1600W*875D*400H
875W*875D*400H
For Dutch designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings, the creative tensions between color and pattern, between surface and form, and between design and production define every project their studio undertakes. They dive deep into art and design history for inspiration, while always looking ahead to invent new ways of living, working, and making in the world.
Partners in work and life, they established Scholten & Baijings as a formal practice in 2000. Since then, their process has evolved into a natural division of labor, with Stefan focusing on ideology, Carole on details and production. Their home and family famously form the testing grounds for every product they produce.
Herman Miller was a West Michigan businessman who helped his son-in-law, D.J. De Pree, buy the Michigan Star Furniture Company in 1923. De Pree had been working at the company, which opened in 1905, since he was hired in 1909 as a clerk. De Pree knew his father-in-law was a man of integrity, so he decided to rename the company after him. By the middle of the 20th century, the name Herman Miller had become synonymous with “modern” furniture. Working with legendary designers George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, the company produced pieces that would become classics of industrial design.