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Dezeen features AIRBERG by Jean-Marie Massaud

After having featured our seating furniture Studio, designed by UNStudio, Dezeen now features the sofa and easy chair Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud.

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Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud featured on Dezeen

Dezeen’s article about Studio can be found here >>

Airberg, which has come out of our new initiative OFFECCT LAB, is an innovative piece of furniture that breaks with conventions. The inspiration behind the form of Airberg is a combination of a comfortable, inviting piece of seating furniture and an iceberg filled with vacuum. The furniture’s abstract form is light in its expression and Airberg is contemporary both in its design and in the technique used.

Airberg consists of a structural case which gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material. The unique craftsmanship used in the production of Airberg makes it possible to create a deconstructed piece of furniture that is more defined in its asymmetry. Jean-Marie Massaud has created a piece of furniture that is comfortable, sustainable and competent, making it highly contemporary.

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Flexible Interiors With ISLANDS

We are currently showcasing our new products in Milan, and one of them is Jean-Marie Massaud’s Islands. Islands is a system of seating furniture that creates the feeling of small islands or coral reefs and provides space for informal meetings, while shielding the people sitting on an ”island” from those sitting on the adjacent ”islands” with the help of different materials and different heights.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

This feeling can also be enhanced by plants placed at designated spaces in the furniture. Different seating levels and different materials give the furniture flexibility and do not lock the user to a certain behavior.

With Islands Jean-Marie Massaud wants to reformulate public interiors such as waiting areas and lobbies. In order to achieve this Massaud has created a flexible and functional furniture system that easily can be adjusted to different surroundings and contexts.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

- Islands is not a classical piece of seating furniture; it is more abstract with different parts that together form an entirety. It stands for innovation, says Jean-Marie Massaud.

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and he creates designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way. Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

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Sound absorbing SOUNDWAVE® PIX

In Milan at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile we are currently presenting the news of 2013. On of these novelties is the sound absorbing panel Soundwave® Pix, created by the French designer Jean-Marie Massaud.

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Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud

Soundwave® Pix provides architects with the possibility to create unique rooms by offering the option to combine colors and forms in different ways. Soundwave® Pix complements the sound absorbing function with the potential of esthetic variation in terms of the color and form options. The design of Pix in itself is a reminder of keys on a keyboard, and radiates a sense of recognition that also surprises.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and he creates designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way. Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault.

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Jean-Marie Massaud innovates with AIRBERG

Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud is currently being presented to visitors at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Airberg is an innovative piece of furniture that breaks with conventions, and one of the first results that come out of the work at Offecct Lab, our strategic initiative designed to concentrate our efforts in the development of new solutions and new products.

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Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud

The inspiration behind the form of Airberg is a combination of a comfortable, inviting piece of seating furniture and an iceberg filled with vacuum. The furniture’s abstract form is light in its expression and Airberg is contemporary both in its design and in the technique used. Airberg consists of a structural case which gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material.

Airberg is not ready for production yet, but should be seen as a result of an ongoing research and development process where Offecct and Jean-Marie Massaud dared to develop a piece of seating furniture for the meeting places of the future.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and he creates designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way. Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault.

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Jean-Marie Massaud Interviewed

This year French designer Jean-Marie Massaud, with ehom we have cooperated for a long time, has designed numerous products for us: the sofa and easy chair Airberg, the system of seating furniture Islands and the sound absorbing panel Soundwave Pix.

Massaud was born in 1966 and graduated from the ENSCI in 1990. In 2000 he founded Studio Massaud.

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Jean-Marie Massaud

His design is based on a well-developed design philosophy. From industrial design to architecture and technological innovation; he is a man of change. He prefers questioning the existing, in order to achieve progress and eventually propose answers to contemporary problems.

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Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud’s designs are characterized by an understanding of the surrounding world and create designs through a holistic approach that captures the zeitgeist in an interesting way.

Massaud has been named Designer of the Year several times and has worked with companies such as Cacharel, Lancôme and Renault. For Offecct Massaud has designed the very successful series Bond, the sofa system Easy Block, the sound absorbing panel Pix and the system of seating furniture Airberg.

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Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud

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Last Chance To See l’expo Jean-Marie Massaud

The exhibition presenting our long-term partner and friend designer Jean-Marie Massaud’s work is currently on display in our Stockholm showroom. You still have the chance to see it until March 8th.

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L’exposition Jean-Marie Massaud

The exhibition was inaugurated during the Stockholm Furniture Fair, and was a great success with designers, architects, retailers and many more  paying a visit. This is the first time that Jean-Marie Massaud exhibits in Scandinavia, and a great opportunity to see his exciting work.

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Anders Englund, Jean-Marie Massaud and Kurt Tingdal

The exhibition takes you into an emotional landscape especially designed by Jean-Marie Massaud to celebrate our on-going partnership and the release of new creations where pleasure meets responsibility.

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Inauguration of the exhibition

In the exhibition you can see Massaud’s latest additions to our collection; the innovative seating furniture Airberg, the acoustic panel Soundwave® Pix and the seating system Islands.

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Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud has also designed many exciting and grand projects that are presented in the exhibition, such as the futuristic airship Zeppelin NT, and the gigantic Volcano Chivas Stadium in Mexico.

Exhibition hours: Mon – Fri 8.30 am – 5.30 pm

Closed for lunch 12 – 1 pm

OFFECCT Showroom

Torsgatan 13

Tel. +46 (0) 8 410 516 70

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Innovative Experiments at OFFECCT Lab

At Offecct we have a history of developing innovative solutions and products with high design ambitions. One of these initiatives is a long lasting program to develop furniture for activity-based workplaces that we call Offecct Lab. Offeccts Lab is an overall strategic initiative designed to concentrate our efforts in the development of new solutions and new products.

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Drawing of Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud

– In the establishment of OFFECCT LAB we challenge ourselves and our designers in order to develop proactive and innovative ways to test the limits of the meeting places of the future, says Kurt Tingdal, CEO, Offecct.

The two first tangible results of the work of Offect Lab are Airberg and Cape that are currently exposed at the StockholmFurniture Fair.

Airberg is a challenging piece of seating furniture designed by Jean-Marie Massaud, and a result of our experiments with new seating typologies.

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Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud

Cape is a complex chair with an exciting look, with ultra-thin dimensions and a very low weight, made possible through the collaboration between Offecct and Swedish Steel AB in the development of new steel materials.

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Cape by Nendo

– OFFECCT LAB is a very important strategic initiative for Offecct’s continued growth, and we now have the pleasure to preview Airberg and Cape, the first two prototypes resulting from our efforts in Offecct Lab. During 2013 we will continue to work with our designers and suppliers to develop innovative and surprising solutions and products, concludes Kurt Tingdal.

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Islands of Possibilities

Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud / PHOTO BY FREDERIK LIEBERATH

Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud / PHOTO BY FREDERIK LIEBERATH

Jean-Marie Massaud has designed several products for us this year. One of them is Islands, a system of seating furniture for public interiors such as waiting rooms and lobbies.

To do this Massaud created a flexible and functional furniture that can be easily adapted to the surrounding environment.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

Islands creates a feeling of small islands or coral reefs and provides spaces for informal meetings. The design of Islands, tables and seating areas in different heights, ensures that people sitting on one island are shielded or cut off from people on another island, thereby providing intimacy. This feeling can further be heightened by installing plants at different places in the construction.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

– Islands is not a classic seating furniture, it is more abstract with its different parts that together create an entity. It stands for innovation, says Jean-Marie Massaud.

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Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud

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Soundwave® Pix – A Tool for Creating Exciting Interiors

Soundwave® Pix is a new addition to our successful line of sound absorbing panels designed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud.

Soundwave® Pix provides architects and interior designers the possibility to create unique spaces by combining colors and shapes in different constellations.

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Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud

- Soundwave® Pix offer architects the possibility to combine many different parts that together create an entirety and I look forward to seeing architects and interior designers throughout the world use Pix to create innovative interiors, says designer Jean-Marie Massaud.

- The popularity of Soundwave® keeps growing worldwide, not the least as activity based work and meeting places become increasingly frequent. Jean-Marie Massaud’s addition Soundwave® Pix increases the possibility for our partners to create interesting and functional interiors, says Kurt Tingdal, CEO, Offecct.

 

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Our New Products Presented Today at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

Today we present a number of new products at the opening of the 2013 edition of the Stockholm Furniture Fair, by designers such as Cate & Nelson, Jean-Marie Massaud, Knudsen Berg Hindenes, Luca Nichetto, Mattias Stenberg, Nendo and Richard Hutten!

Carry On by Mattias Stenberg / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Carry On by Mattias Stenberg / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Carry On, designed by Mattias Stenberg, is a portable seating furniture that can both stand alone and be a complement to other pieces of furniture. Carry On offers solutions for the activity-based working place where focus shifts from working spaces to meeting places.

Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Islands by Jean-Marie Massaud / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Jean-Marie Massaud has designed three products for us this year. One of them is Islands, a system of flexible and functional seating furniture that can be easily adapted to the surrounding.

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Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud’s second design is an innovative piece of furniture that breaks with conventions and challenges the limits of the characteristics of traditional seating furniture. Airberg is the first result to come out of Offecct Lab, a strategic initiative with the goal of developing new solutions and products. Airberg is not yet in production, but is the result of these ongoing developmental efforts.

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Soundwave Pix by Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud has also designed a new sound absorbing panel, Soundwave® Pix. Soundwave® Pix’s design reminds us of the keys on a keyboard, and gives architects the possibility to create unique rooms by combining panels in different colors and forms.

Soundwave Stand by Richard Hutten / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Soundwave Stand by Richard Hutten / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Richard Hutten has followed up his Soundwave® Stripes of last year by creating Soundwave® Stand, a new tool for architects. Soundwave® Stand is a stand on which all of our sound absorbing panels can be attached.

Bop by Knudsen Berg Hindenes / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Bop by Knudsen Berg Hindenes / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Knudsen Berg Hindenes have developed Bop, an exclusive chair for concert halls and other rooms that was originally designed for the cultural center USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. Bop lives up to the high demands of comfort, lifespan and adaptability that is needed in a concert chair.

Cape by Nendo / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Cape by Nendo / Photo by Frederik Lieberath

Last but not least we have the pleasure of presenting the chair Cape by Nendo, an elegant addition to our collection. Cape is an elegant chair that gives the illusion of a cape being draped over a frame. ###

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