BACKPACK outdoor sofa

Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere love marriages of materials and enjoy playing with contrasts. Thus, they designed the Yak settee for De Padova in 2015, which associates a solid wooden structure with a rustic Nordic air with sumptuous goose feather-filled leather cushions.

As for the Backpack armchair, its distinctive personality is derived from the slim, elegant structure/base which is the perfect foil for the perfectly-designed silhouette of its welcomingly thick and ergonomically-curved seat/back cushion. At the top of the back, the cushion rolls over on itself and is held in place by a strap on its back which is evocative of the kind of backpack used by the explorers of yesteryear. The airy base in brown or white lacquered aluminium – a material routinely used for the frames of large travellers’ backpacks – is a well-considered interplay of sloping lines which confers on the piece, in astonishing style, an air of restless dynamism whilst oering an impression of reassuring stability. Moving the Backpack seating really is child’s play: one is surprised by their lightness, which is not only visual but also real.