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Issue 63 - Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Issue 63

Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Habitus 63 is arguably the most aspirational issue of the year with Kitchens & Bathrooms to dream about. Whether a family hub, an entertainer’s paradise or somewhere to grad a quick meal, how we live in and spend time in the kitchen is a very personal question that requires thought and an abundance of resources. Always the aspirational eye candy of design, we have some truly lovely kitchens from Greg Natale, YSG, Splinter Society, Sally Caroline and Studio Johnston. Bathrooms are just as important with Greg Natale, Studio Tate, YSG and Those Architects sharing some fabulous insights

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Vegetal Chair
ProductsHabitusliving Editor

Vegetal Chair

You know the products, now hear the stories behind the Vitra
Home Collection


For Design Hunters™, the Vitra Home Collection represents
over 70 years of design history. It includes classics by Charles & Ray
Eames, Jean Prouvé, Verner Panton and Isamu Noguchi as well as contemporary
designs by Jasper Morrison, the Bouroullec brothers, Hella Jongerius and other
leading designers.

Behind the iconic design of the products is a lesser-known
story of how each came to be. Discovering these tales gives us even more reason
to covet these beautiful designs, so we thought we’d share them with you. Enjoy
the first of our Vitra stories…

The Vegetal Chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

While the Bouroullec brothers were designing the organic Algue design (2004) for
Vitra they became inspired by a 19th century artist who had developed a method
of growing young trees into the shape of a chair. This concept is behind the
organic form of the Vegetal (2008).

 

 

The goal was not just to design a chair that looked like it
had ‘sprouted’ but also to show the construction of the chair through an
interpretation of the natural growth process of a plant. Ronan Bouroullec says,
“Our task as designers is to find new structures and new forms of construction.
This chair is not just a motif – it is a structure”

 

Vitra Chairman, Rolf Fehlbaum, describes the Vegetal chair
as “The most difficult design and development he has ever been involved in”. It
took a dedicated period of four years to develop and perfect this one design…
but what a result. Beautiful Bouroullec branches.

The Vitra Home Collection is available through Space
Furniture.

 

Space Furniture
spacefurniture.com.au

Vitra
vitra.com

 


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Issue 63 - Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Issue 63

Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Habitus 63 is arguably the most aspirational issue of the year with Kitchens & Bathrooms to dream about. Whether a family hub, an entertainer’s paradise or somewhere to grad a quick meal, how we live in and spend time in the kitchen is a very personal question that requires thought and an abundance of resources. Always the aspirational eye candy of design, we have some truly lovely kitchens from Greg Natale, YSG, Splinter Society, Sally Caroline and Studio Johnston. Bathrooms are just as important with Greg Natale, Studio Tate, YSG and Those Architects sharing some fabulous insights

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