Overview
Design by Tord Boontje, 2008.
By Moroso.
The Shadowy Chair Sunny Longer features shaping that evokes the beach furniture found at the North Sea in Northern Europe in the 1920's. The style is contemporized using digitally drawn color patterns. Woven by expert African craftsmen using colored plastic threads in patterns traditional to Senegal. The structure is in steel, with a robust shape. Shadowy has curious ruffles that turn into a parasol cover at each end and in the armrests and backrest and a comfortable headrest. Three woven color versions are offered, one with three tones of green and blue, one with red, orange brown and yellow and the other with brown, white, pink and green.
Notes:
No returns are accepted on this product.
Returns: No returns are accepted on this product.
Specifications
Material(s): Varnished tubular steel with multicolor woven plastic thread
Dimensions: 38.25" W X 32.25" D X 55.25" H
Models
SW001
Designer: Studio Tord Boontje
Tord Boontje does not believe that modernism means minimalism. In fact, this designer from the Netherlands is not afraid to celebrate the materials he uses in designs. Sometimes this means creating layers and layers of materials. Boontje is also inspired by nature and emotion. For Boontje, nature seems to evoke feelings of wonder. Boontje's Globe Pendant illustrates this idea of thinking about nature as a wild specimen. Something that even glass cannot control. His designs are meant to stimulate the observer's imagination. It's quite hard to not create a narrative or backstory to some of his pieces.
Boontje does not believe that contemporary designs should abandon tradition. Though Boontje, employs some of the latest technology when fabricating his designs, the materials he uses or designs hold some traditional context. Perhaps, this interest in tradition comes from his background. Born in Enchede, Netherlands in 1968, Boontje studied industrial design at the Design Academy in Eindohoven and went on to earn a Masters from the Royal College of Art in London. Currently, Boonje has set up Studio Tord Boontje in Bourg-Argental, France and teaches at the Royal College of Art. When looking at some of his products, one can almost imagine him wondering through the backwoods of France–making discoveries and feeding his imagination. Boontje was nominated for the Designer Of The Year Award at the Design Museum 2003. Tord was nominated Designer of the Year by Elle Decoration UK and his renowned Garland Light (for Artecnica) won the awards for best light and readers choice for Future Classic.
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Moroso started from the end: it began by considering the end users, their lifestyles and their ways of using their living-rooms. A living room is a place you open to other people, in order to express your hospitality, but can also be a place of quiet and reflection.
Moroso has been designing sofas, armchairs and accessories since 1952 with renowned designers such as Ron Arad, Carlo Colombo, Enrico Franzolini, Marc Newson, Toshiyuki Kita and Patricia Urquiola.
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