SKiN

Presented:	Salone del Mobile 2007, Milan
Stylepark-ID:	05.1099.00077
Categories:	Home furniture › Seating furniture › Seating objects

Product description

Jean Nouvel, the eclectic French architect always searching for new expressions, is responsible for SKiN, a sofa which is remarkable for its simplicity. A “sculpture” which is at the same time decidedly “present” and yet immaterial, light and compact. The seating is suspended and the decorative elements become structural, making it surprisingly comfortable, original and delicate. SKiN adopts innovative technical ideas such as the supporting structure in tubular pretensioned steel which holds another structural element, the cover in double-sided leather with its self-modelling geometric incisions. Technical innovation, research in design and skilled craftsmanship characterise Molteni & C’s production, and are ably summed up in SKiN, thanks to the Group’s ability to bring to life the design ideas created for the Musée du Quai Branly by Jean Nouvel, reinterpreting the unique architecture designed for the museum and making it available to a wide range of clients.

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Articles about SKiN

Glorious fragments

2/21/2019

Jean Nouvel has converted a historical building complex in Rome for Fondazione Alda Fendi and created an extraordinary synthesis of old and new.

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From Brianza out into the wide world

4/13/2015

A prototypical design company: Molteni, founded 80 years ago in Brianza, now run by the third generation of family members, presents its products in a setting of Modern art.

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On the move

9/10/2021

The supersalone, the special event of the Salone del Mobile curated by Stefano Boeri, offered a platform for creative experiments from 5 to 10 September 2021 that shows what an international furniture fair should be in the future. Our review.

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