Modern French Style Furniture SKiN Sofa by Jean Nouvel

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French style furniture SKiN sofa designed by the French architect, Jean Nouvel. It’s a design with a strongly avant-garde appearance, he now intends to give shape to something that is “essential” – a new kind of comfort is to be achieved through leaving things out.

This modern sofa consists of a supporting structure in tubular pretensioned steel that holds another structure, the cover in double leather. A distinctive feature is that this upholstery is supported only by self-modeling geometric incisions. The modern furniture SKiN sofa thus looks as if modeled from one piece, and the seat area in particular seems to be floating. SKiN is surprisingly comfortable and the leather feels soft and delicate. Its form is recreated through the senses and in the imagination of the beholder – a presence that is disclosed as a tactical experience of the immaterial.

The modern sofa concept emerged while planning for the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and the solutions, developed especially for the architecture of that museum, have now been transferred in an interdisciplinary approach to a piece of furniture. [via]

Modern French Style Furniture SKiN Sofa by Jean Nouvel

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