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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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STUDIO by UNStudio in Dezeen

The seating furniture Studio, designed by UNStudio, was featured on Dezeen, one of the most popular and influential architecture and design blogs with over three million visits a month.

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Studio featured on DeZeen

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

The series Studio is a system of seating furniture which can be adapted to any need or environment.

The series is a part of our business area Travel & Navigation together with many products that are suitable for different kinds of waiting areas, terminals, cruise ships and airports etc.

The Studio series consists of a number of different versions; Studio Twin, Studio Twin Beam and Studio Easy Chair Right / Left, giving architects the possibility to create exiting and innovative interiors.

- The concept for the Studio series was to create a light, comfortable and easily rearranged collection of seating elements which incorporate a variety of spatial gestures with specific emphasis on versatility in communication, says Ben van Berkel, co-founder and architect at UNStudio.

More information about the different versions of STUDIO:

STUDIO >>

STUDIO TWIN >>

STUDIO TWIN BEAM >>

 

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Light Seating in the Form of NETFRAME

Currently on exhibition in Milan is our new sofa and easy chair Netframe, designed by the duo Cate & Nelson. Cate & Nelson’s idea behind Netframe was to create a piece of furniture that consumes as little material as possible while maintaining a high comfort.

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Netframe by Cate&Nelson

- In order to succeed with this challenge we had to turn everything upside down in the development process. We wanted it to be easy to produce with minimal time and material usage, says Nelson Ruiz-Acal, one half of Cate & Nelson.

Netframe was developed into a very comfortable piece of furniture with extremely low impact on the environment. Cate & Nelson believe it is important to see the wholeness in their design, that the product is responsible at all stages; from production to usage, which is very apparent in their design of Netframe.

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Cate & Nelson

The design duo Cate & Nelson consists of the Swedish designer Cate Högdahl and Spanish Nelson Ruiz-Acal. Cate & Nelson were educated at the Europeo di Design in Madrid and are based in London but also represented in Spain and Sweden. Their designs are distinguished by sustainability and a continental approach.

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Sustainable Comfort by Cate & Nelson

Our new sofa and easy chair Netframe is designed by designduo Cate & Nelson and is their first Offecct product.

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Netframe by Cate&Nelson

The idea behind Netframe was to create a piece of furniture where the construction contains as little material as possible all the while maintaining a high comfort. Cate&Nelson believe it is important to see the wholeness in their design, that the product is accountable in all steps from production to usage. This is also one of the pillars of how we at Offecct develop our products, and this provided for a solid foundation for a positive cooperation.

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Netframe by Cate&Nelson

– Offecct is one of the most reliable partners we have worked with. The company takes a great social responsibility with their products and their production process, says Nelson Ruiz-Acal, one half of the design duo.

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Netframe by Cate&Nelson

 

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Netframe by Cate&Nelson

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Good Design Award 2012 #2: Layer by Läufer + Keichel & Offecct

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have awarded the easy chair Layer by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel with the 2012 GOOD DESIGN Award.

The easy chair LAYER is characterized by three layers, which can be varied in terms of textile and color in order to create a unique design. The first layer can be compared to a stool, the second layer to a chair and the third layer creates the final form; an easy chair.

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Layer by Läufer + Keichel

- There is a strong poetic aspect to LAYER: the layers can be seen as flower petals, or as the different blue layers that emerge when one looks at mountains in the horizon, says Läufer + Keichel

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Good Design Award

Founded in Chicago in 1950, GOOD DESIGN remains the oldest and the world’s most recognized program for design excellence worldwide. For 2012, the Museum received submissions from several thousand of the world’s leading manufacturers and industrial and graphic design firms from around the world representing the most important and critical mass of influential corporations worldwide in the design industry from over 48 countries.

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An Inspiring Evening with Monica Förster

Last week we had an event at our showroom in Stockholm. Monica Förster, who has designed several interesting products for us, spoke to the audience about her work, design, cooperation with producers, and about Swedish design in an international focus.

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Monica Förster speaking to audience at our showroom

Offecct and Förster first cooperated 10 years ago, and this event commemorated these years of successful and interesting collaboration. Throughout the years this collaboration has resulted in the sofa Grand, the chair Mood, the easy chairs Spoon High and Spoon Low, and the portable room Cloud.

We would like to thank everyone who participated at this event for an extraordinary evening!

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Cloud by Monica Förster

 

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Grand by Monica Förster

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Float High Auctioned at Bukowskis

#design #bukowskis

One of our beautiful Float High easy chairs is up for auction at Bukowskis. It is upholstered in a skyblue fabric, and has cushions in a striped multicolored fabric.

Bukowskis is the Nordic leading art business. Founded in 1870 by Polish nobleman Henryk Bukowski, Bukowskis have conducted the greatest auctions in Sweden for the past 140 years, including the collection of King Charles XV in 1873 and the estate of Master director Ingmar Bergman in 2009.

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Float High by Claesson Koivisto Rune

The creation of Float High was made with an architectural approach with the goal of creating low-key furniture with a strong sense of presence – something that is very obvious in this easy chair. The design was prompted by Koivisto’s own needs, which involved a lot of travelling and many meetings in public settings.

Below some other versions of Float.

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Float by Claesson Koivisto Rune

Eero Koivisto himself says of the creation: “I noticed the same behavior in everyone involved in business meetings. People lean forward in the very low seats, try to conceal their computer screen, and hold their hand around their mouth while talking on their mobile phone. I wondered whether I could create a piece of furniture that felt like it was a small, separate room. I started with Float, which I had previously designed for Offecct, and pulled up the edges just far enough so that when you sit up very straight you can see over the edge, but when you sit back you get a private and secluded space.”

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Float Light by Claesson Koivisto Rune

Float is a series of easy chairs and sofas available with the backrest and sides in different heights.

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Offecct worldwide: France and the US

#H&M #Harrisbank

During this spring Offecct products have been used in a number of fantastic projects worldwide.

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Harris Bank, Naperville, USA

One of these is an installation with Soudwave Botanic, designed by Mario Ruiz, at Harris Bank in Naperville, USA.

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Harris Bank, Naperville, USA

The Soundwave Botanic in the installation have been upholstered in Europost from Gabrie.

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Harris Bank, Naperville, USA

Another beautiful project is H&M’s office in Paris.

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H&M in Paris, photos by kleinefenn

In the front you can see the easy chair Palma designed by Khodi Feiz, accompanied by the table Bird by Broberg & Ridderstråle. In the back you can see the sofa Playback by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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H&M in Paris, photos by kleinefenn

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Salone del Mobile News #9: COUPE by Läufer + Keichel

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At the Salone del Mobile in Milan we are showing our visitors all our new products. One out of two new products from our new collaboration with Berlin based design agency Läufer + Keichel is the chair COUPE.

Coupe by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

Coupe by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

At first glance COUPE gives the impression of being entirely made of textile. In fact COUPE can be described as a chair that has been dressed up in textile. Läufer + Keichel and Offecct have used a special knitting technique in order to obtain this effect. The duo wanted to create a chair that gives the impression that it is wearing pants.

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Coupe by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

– We wanted to create a chair that gives the impression it is wearing pants. In the process of obtaining this we are happy for the knowledge and support Offecct provided us, says Läufer + Keichel.

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Coupe by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

About Läufer + Keichel

Julia Läufer and Marcus Keichel founded the Berlin based design agency Läufer + Keichel GbR in 2003. Their work has ever since been characterized by the desire to create everyday objects with a human face, regardless if it is architecture or product design.

The design duo has been awarded the Good Design Award, the Red Dot Award and the IF Product Design Award, and have participated in a great number of expositions throughout the world

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Salone del Mobile News #7: LAYER easy chair by Läufer + Keichel

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One out of the two products designed by Läufer + Keichel for this year’s collection is the easy chair LAYER. This chair is characterized by three layers, which can be varied in terms of textile and color in order to create a unique design.

Layer by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

Layer by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

- There is a strong poetic aspect to LAYER: the layers can be seen as flower petals, or as the different blue layers that emerge when one looks at mountains in the horizon, says Läufer + Keichel.

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Layer by Offecct and Läufer + Keichel

The first layer can be compared to a stool, the second layer to a chair and the third layer creates the final form; an easy chair. The different layers can be given different colors on the same scale or completely different colors in order to create different effects.

 

About Läufer + Keichel

Julia Läufer and Marcus Keichel founded the Berlin based design agency Läufer + Keichel GbR in 2003. Their work has ever since been characterized by the desire to create everyday objects with a human face, regardless if it is architecture or product design.

The design duo has been awarded the Good Design Award, the Red Dot Award and the IF Product Design Award, and have participated in a great number of expositions throughout the world

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