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Bonsai pouf with wooden base

  • Bonsai pouf with wooden base
  • Bonsai pouf with wooden base
Presented:Salone del Mobile 2016, Milan
Stylepark-ID:05.1115.00157
Categories: Home furniture › Seating furniture › Stools
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Product description

The Bonsai seating collection is inspired by reflections upon Japanese aesthetics and culture. The seats are characterised by soft, curved forms. These inviting, friendly shapes are reminiscent of the bushes and shrubs, found in gardens all over Japan, that have been cultivated and trimmed in order to create beautiful soft, ‘organic’, cloud-like shapes. In stark contrast, rectilinear wooden platforms supported on low, wooden legs elevate these rounded, upholstered forms above the floor plane. Almost like tokonoma, the practice of placing selected, cherished items such as a bonsai tree, upon a horizontal surface in order to create an interior feature, the platforms create a kind of smaller, more dedicated frame within a larger context. Within this ‘frame’ is the presence of other elements such as an optional integrated lamp with a flowing fabric shade and a recessed stone or mirror plate, for arranging potted plants on or simply a stack of books. The upholstered seats in moulded polyurethane foam are also available with the platforms, realized in wood, painted wengé, oak or chocolate, or supported on simple legs, in black metal.

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Manufacturer:
arflex, Italy

Design:
Ola Rune
2016

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Eero Koivisto
2016

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Mârten Claesson
2016