2019
New Designs
HARD AT WORK
Established & Sons’ bold new collection responds to the changing world of work with crossover designs by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic and Sebastian Wrong. Blurring the boundaries between work and leisure, these innovative, new designs are considered responses to the rise of the live-work space and shifting attitudes towards aesthetics in the working environment. ‘The working environment is no longer about meeting rooms, task chairs and desk systems. It’s more emotive, it’s more creative, it’s more inventive, its much more fluid. With the huge boom in co-working spaces, there is a tremendous amount of opportunity for designers to reimagine how people work together and apart’, said Sebastian Wrong. From the Grid—a raw, modular approach to work and play by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec—to the purity of Konstantin Grcic’s table designs, the furniture demonstrates the importance of flexibility and character in design.
GRID Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
A colourful room-within-a-room, the raw shell of the GRID provides a base for modular seating, shelves, tables and screens, which can be integrated in different ways to create a playful and multi functional environment for informal meetings, presentations or simply hanging out.
The side panels are available in either a metal grid that encourages communication between the inside and outside of the module, a larch-wood veneer or covered with an acoustic upholstery. Each element—the frame, upholstery and panels— can be finished in a different colour.
The modular system is based on powder-coated steel frame and is designed to offer total flexibility. A vast array of options offers the owner true freedom in modifying the design to their needs and encourages creativity and dynamism in their use.
Other variations include a U-shaped module, which creates a more enveloping effect, a straight module without a seat that can function as a partition and a straight module with a seat that functions as a bench.These can also be joined together to create rows of different uses.
The basic, L- shaped module has two 2.5 metre-long sides, enclosed by tall back and side panels. Both sides can be fully upholstered as a sofa, or one side can function as a built-in side table. A standing or sitting desk for informal work is created with the addition of an external shelf.
For the seating, a base cushion provides the initial support, with three other cushion sizes and shapes offered to create diverse sitting environments.
BEAM TABLE Konstantin Grcic
Based on an everyday icon—the I-beam girder—the BEAM TABLE is designed to last a lifetime. Merging premium design with an industrial aesthetic and an undeniably strong presence, the table is equally at home in an artisan’s workshop, a gallery, a family home or a live-work space. The rolled steel i-beams that form the structure of the table are coated in a fine-textured powder coat in either jet black or red oxide and sit on adjustable round feet that help protect the ground beneath. Optional lockable swivel-castors allow the table to be easily moved, helping it adapt to many different uses. Solid-lipped table tops are available in oak veneer, a highpressure laminate in black or in black Fenix, a heat-and-scratch resistant, high end surface material.
The BEAM TABLE comes in two heights—a standard 74 centimetres and a lofty 110 centimetres that showcases the purity of the structure—meaning that the design is perfectly suited to standing work as well as traditional table-top activities.
KD TABLE Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin Grcic brings together aesthetic precision and ruthlessly efficient engineering with the KD TABLE. A combination of industrial components and machined steel parts, the table is an exercise in purity of function, form and detail. With demountable, triangular legs that are fixed to the frame at a 90-degree angle using metal bolts and adjustable feet, the KD TABLE also offers a surprising flexibility.
Both robust and considered, the black, powder-coated metal frame is available in three heights—40 centimetres, 74 centimetres and 110 centimetres, with a one-metre-by one-metre or two-metre-by-one-metre surface area. Subtle texture differences add to the character of the design, with the textured frame contrasting with the smooth table tops. The black-edged tops are available with an upper surface of either high-pressure laminate in black, white, brown, grey or fern green or Fenix—a heat-and scratch resistant, high-end surface material—in black, blush, rust, grey or moss green.
LUCIO LOUNGE Sebastian Wrong
The LUCIO LOUNGE combines maximum comfort with minimum weight to create a super-comfortable lounge chair that’s easy to move and offers a distinctive, graphic profile.
These slashes in the fabric allow the upholstery to hug the frame tightly, swaddling the structure of the angular seat as well as providing an unexpected visual contrast.
The supportive foam and fabric body is connected to a tubularsteel frame with a textile cover featuring a unique upholstery effect with slashes at the base of the seat and headrest, inspired by the paintings of Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana.
At 88cm tall and 90cm deep, the chair is low-slung and generously sized to enable a truly relaxed sitting position, cleverly supported by sprung webbing that shapes to the body for extra comfort.
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