little albert-fauteuil
Design Tord Boontje,
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A continuous flow of curving lines, an image-form drawn without ever lifting the pencil off the paper. Originally a ‘doughnut’ which provided inspiration for a sculpture: squashed, and reworked, using irony to go beyond the usual approach to industrial design. Then the piece itself: the padding and sewn-to-measure upholstery over an inner fibreglass frame reveal the interaction between the technical and expressive merits of the design. Its never-ending lines are sensitive but strong, perfect consonance between surface and form, body and skin. The fabric reaches out into the space around it magnifying and reinforcing the materiality of the piece yet without interrupting or overpowering its fluidity.
740W*650D*770H
740W*650D*810H
Tord Boontje (b. 1968) graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1991 where he studied Industrial Design, and earned a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London in 1994. By ‘96 he had founded his own studio in London, and remained there until 2005, at which point he relocated to Bourg-Argental, France. Boontje was nominated for the Designer Of The Year Award at the Design Museum 2003, and also nominated for Designer of the Year by Elle Decoration UK. There, the Garland Light won the award for best light and Readers Choice for Future Classic.
Agostino Moroso, with his wife, Diana, founded the Moroso company in 1952 with an artisanal approach to making sofas, armchairs and furnishing accessories. Their iconic designs have propelled them within the upholstered furniture market, with help from a long list of well known designers: Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, Ross Lovegrove, Konstantin Grcic, Alfredo H?berli, Toshiyuki Kita, Marcel Wanders and others. Each piece maintains a noticeable Moroso style while representing other cultures as well. Its international outlook has landed Moroso into the MoMA in New York, Le Palais de Tokyo, the Grand Palais in Paris.
