The Couch. A typological construction
12/6/2011
Presented: | Salone del Mobile 2008, Milan |
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Stylepark-ID: | 05.1011.10087 |
Categories: | Home furniture › Seating furniture › Sofas |
"Gran Khan" , a creation reminiscent of the primitive couches that furnished Mongolian tents. If an object's significance is revealed by its name, then Sofà's essential, uncluttered form and invitingly soft cushions is the essence of comf
ort. And as the embodiment of a mental image, it can take on different forms. So an example of bourgeois creature comforts has now become Gran Khan seemingly lifted from tents strewn with skins and carpets inhabited by nomadic peoples in the lands of &quo
t;the crescent moon".