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Juliet

Pleated and stretched leather armchair to celebrate Poltrona Fraus Centenary

80 x 80 cm x 80 cm manufactured by Poltrona Frau

The armchair for the 100 year old company enters into its iconic limited edition collection to represent its history and future.

The brief of the competition was to utilise the traditional upholstery techniques under the theme ‘a chair to spend time in’ and judged under the categories of; formal appearance, representation of the given theme, use and interpretation of leather and comfort.

Juliet, the chair awarded winner of the competition, is inspired by the Italian renaissance fashion detail the ‘Juliet sleeve’ a sleeve which tightly fits the arm and has a large deconstructed ‘puff’ on the shoulder. This inspiration was used to communicate the properties of leather upholstery.

An international judging panel made up of personalities from various worlds of design, architecture, journalism and business –adjudicated the winning project at the 2012 Design Village in Milan.

Film by Benjamin Hubert & Tom Harries
Music by Sidebone

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If you have any further queries about this or any other piece in the Poltrona Frau Collection, please contact our Design Team:

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This magical creation by Marcel Wanders is currently on display at our exclusive showroom in Design Centre Chelsea Harbour for 4 weeks only, it is the first and only one in the UK at present so don’t miss out!

Chrysalis is a magic vase. It is not the typical flower funeral, it is a festive evergreen flower fountain. The way a chrysalis hosts the metamorphosis of a caterpillar changing into a butterfly. The same way this magic vase, out of nothing grows its fabulous flowers of light. There is a hidden secret, there is life inside, glowing, to come out, to fly as flowers between flowers.

With the Chrysalis floor lamp Marcel Wanders engages with one of the Flos brand’s most distinctive materials: the ‘cocoon’ resin used in the 1960s by the Castiglioni brothers and by Tobia Scarpa. The French designer uses this resin for its adaptability and high strength. More than 50 years have passed since the first applications of ‘cocoon’ in lighting and although the production technique has remained the same, the material has been improved and softened. As in the past, the resin is sprayed in three phases onto the skeleton of the lamp, and then covered with a special transparent finishing to protect it and improve the shine. Exploiting and enhancing the characteristics of this dynamic, malleable material, with Chrysalis Wanders has created an elegant lamp that draws its inspiration from a classic flower vase or the amphorae of antiquity.

Years ago, with his Zeppelin lamp, the designer had already demonstrated how suited this material was to creating highly original and extremely beautiful light fittings. With his latest creation Chrysalis, the designer revisits the perfect shape of the amphora but increases its size to two metres in height. Impressive and striking, in Wanders’ imagination Chrysalis becomes a ‘magic vase’ which, like a chrysalis, is waiting to become a butterfly. These visionary metaphors don’t disappoint our expectations. As well as producing light by means of a fluorescent tube in the main body, another light source at the top projects decorative beams of light onto the ceiling through a polyurethane ornament. Reflecting the original idea of the ‘magic vase’, Chrysalis scatters ethereal luminous flowers around itself, creating a pleasing and captivating play of reflections.

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For over twenty years Emmemobili have successfully combined modern art with the handcrafted skill of wood manufacturing together with breath taking effect.

Innovative research into new shapes, material combinations and manufacturing techniques, have attributed towards achieving “pieces of art”, with their own personality, not necessarily linked to one another, but each for itself.

The “Emmemobili habitat” doesn’t exist. What instead exists are the pieces that, from time to time, are chosen by the architects and interior designers to characterise a space, to insert one or more masterpieces that will enrich and symbolise the style of those are living in it.

So, along the years, the collection is the result of blending items with more clear lines together with other more decorative or unusual objects, with the common denominator of being timeless masterpieces.

Here are some of the pieces, which have taken our eye from the new Emmemobili collection, which will be shown on their stand at Salone 2012…

TWAYA designed by  Ferruccio Laviani

Table of gorgeous design. The solid oak wood is worked up to its shapes imitate the lateral waving of a tablecloth.

CAPRI designed by Ferruccio Laviani

The inlay reinterpreted in modern key is the theme of this table, together with the combination of the materials with their innovative use.

The inner structure of birch multilayer is covered with ceramics shaped units or in laminated or in thick wood, creating a decoration of shapes and different colours.

TILES designed Ferruccio Laviani

Sideboard characterised for being covered on 3 sides from shaped elements in solid oak wood with different shapes, which make a kind of tile roof.

S-CUBE designed Ferruccio Laviani

Sideboards units to be suspended to the wall. Single or to be combined to make any composition.

ARLEQUIN designed by Ferruccio Laviani

Unusual shaped low sideboard equipped with doors shaped to follow the geometrical front design and decorated by triangles of different materials.

Click here to view the current Emmemobili Furniture Collection

If you have any further queries, please contact our Design Team:

sales@chaplins.co.uk / 020 8421 1779