Eero Koivisto combines poetry with function
Eero Koivisto, one of Sweden’s best-known designers, is launching two new products for Offecct in the spring of 2008. Amazonas and Float High have completely different forms but share the same basic design approach.
Like so many times before, Koivisto has begun with the idea of combining various parts to create a new whole, in the same way as beehive structures or DNA molecules.
The Amazonas table
Originated when Koivisto saw aerial photographs of the rain forest where the tree crowns created a dense ceiling – many parts forming a whole. He immediately wanted to create a table with the same effect, or, rather, he wanted to create several such tables that could be combined to form a cluster.
Amazonas is a small, highly functional table that can be used individually by a bed or several can be combined and placed by a sofa. The tables are sold in sets of three in three different shades of green, and can be arranged so they partly overlap.
The table’s five obliquely set legs make it look like something halfway between a sculpture and a table. The concept comes from the tree trunks in the rain forest, which grow in whichever direction there is space. Koivisto says he wants the tables to be both poetic and thought provoking.
Float High Sofa
Uses an architectural approach to create low-key furniture with a strong sense of presence – something that is very obvious in his new Float High sofa. The design was prompted by his own needs, which involved a lot of travelling and many meetings in public settings.
Koivisto sees it as a challenge to alter the typology of something so archetypical as a rectangular sofa – the one piece of furniture that is perhaps the strongest interior decoration symbol of our times. How can we combine the parts so that something new emerges? The challenge consists in putting the form into a new context.
Eero Koivisto
One of the architect trio of Claesson Koivisto Rune, who have designed everything from houses and interiors to products and furniture. The list of their commissions includes buildings, private homes, offices, exhibitions, advertising agencies and restaurants.
The trio have won a number of awards for architectural and product design both in Sweden and abroad. In 2007 they were selected as Designers of the Year by the Swedish magazine Disajn, and Eero Koivisto’s Ghost sofa for Offecct was chosen as Sofa of the Year by the magazine Residence.
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January 17th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Oh cute designs ,the company can easily sell the product since it is so attracting.