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Pastoe

  • Pastoe _ Ferrero 1947
  • Pastoe _ Ferrero 1947

Pastoe was born in Holland in 1913 in Utrecht for the creation of furnishings, in particular armchairs and sofas, but since 1948 it has focused on wooden containers in a modern and functional key. The sobriety and the technical and aesthetic refinement have always been the main guidelines in all the collections that have alternated, up to the most recent and beloved Vision series: container containers, modular in a huge amount of sizes, possibilities and colors, with the particularity of the pressure opening and the thicknesses at 45 degrees. The result, extremely refined and elegant, is much loved by architects, design lovers and designers for the purity of its aesthetics.

The Pastoe collection is therefore the result of many years of experience in the development and production of the highest quality furniture. Every day we invest again in quality, in the continuous search for further refinement of the technique and greater functionality, without stopping, until we reach the desired result.

When visual and material sustainability is increased, even the smallest details become important; the visibility of a screw or the shape of a hinge are therefore treated with extreme care and attention. The pursuit of perfection is, and will always remain, inherent in the company’s culture. Pastoe furniture is still made in the historic Utrecht factory, taking care to maintain traditional and artisan quality. In order to obtain the best result, production is still largely manual. Thanks to this attention and preparation, an impeccable piece of furniture of great value is born.

Pastoe has always remained faithful to the modular principle. Current furniture systems lend themselves to making sideboards, TV furniture, containers … and they can be defined as figurative works of art. The furniture is not only part of the wall, but also the wall becomes part of the furniture thanks to the play of shadows. Pastoe furniture leaves room for additions according to your taste and thanks to their shape they can be easily combined with other styles and brands.

The connection with art is always very close: in the development of its furniture, the company involves the ability of architects and artists and their sense of form, the keen eye for detail and the play between light and space. It starts with shapes, volumes and colors, elaborating them, to translate everything into furniture. This leads to furniture that is both functional and artistic: a piece of furniture as an object. In addition to the collaboration with architects and artists, the product development section, always at the forefront, translates the signals coming from the market into furniture in line with Pastoe’s design vision.

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PP Mobler

PP Mobler

  • PP mobler _ Ferrero 1947

PP Mobler is a family-run Danish carpentry workshop founded in 1953 and has a strong tradition of crafting high-quality designer furniture. Motivation has always been a love of wood. The company’s philosophy is that technique, ingenuity and craftsmanship can be combined in the search for quality.
The catalog is almost entirely dedicated to the projects of the Danish architect Hans J. Wegner, who had a long and important partnership with this small Danish manufacturing company; Wegner loved to stop in PP Mobler’s laboratory, where his ideas took shape; here he could touch and perceive the professional connection between designer and craftsman and feel the pride and respect for high quality craftsmanship. For its part, the designer has always provided this small laboratory with exciting and difficult tasks, always perceiving the uncompromising request for quality and the commitment to experiment with the material.
Between 1960 and 1968 many of Wegner’s prototypes were developed at PP Mobler before going into production at other companies, while after 1968 the designer began to design the first models for the production of PP Mobler, a very important event for this small laboratory, which began to organize a small catalog on its own. Wegner continued his exploration of the possibilities of wood in terms of form and construction even more freely.
Today PP Mobler produces a wide selection of Wegner furniture, most chairs, especially those with the most complex construction, that no one else could make. Among these, “The Round One”, as Wegner liked to call it with its typical provincial modesty, is one of the most famous Danish furniture in the world, summarizing in a simple and modest way the essence of the tradition of woodworking and the philosophy of the Danish design. It is Hans’ most important work. J. Wegner.
When Johm F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon met in the first televised election debate in 1960, they sat on the Round Chair, chosen primarily for its great comfort and its genuine quality; eventually the Americans found a new and more eloquent name for this chair: they called it, and continue to call it, simply “the chair”.
In the PP Mobler catalog there are many other Wegner projects, not only chairs, but also armchairs, tables and desks, such as the Peacock Chair from 1947, the Folding chair from 1949, the Papa Bear Chair from 1951, the Rocking chair from 1984, The Circle Chair from 1986…
A separate discussion should be reserved for the 1950 Flag Halyard Chair relaxation armchair, one of the very rare Wegner projects not in wood, but with a stainless steel structure and 240 meters of rope to form the seat and back, with the addition of a long-haired sheepskin resting on top. Despite having obvious preferences for wood, Wegner shows his bold and courageous appetite for creation in this project. With the Flag Halyard Chair, the designer pays tribute to the first modernist designers such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, and proves to be able to master stainless steel with the same elegance as the wood master. The Flag Halyard Chair remains one of the highest examples of Danish design and one of the most desired royal armchairs in the world.

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Vitra

Vitra

Vitra is a Swiss company dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices and public spaces through the power of design, founded in Weil am Rhein in 1950 by Willi Fehlbaum, owner of a furniture store in nearby Basel. Its products are developed in an impeccable, intensive design process, which brings together engineering excellence with the creative genius of internationally renowned designers. The goal, since the early 1950s, is to create functional and stimulating interiors, furniture and accessories through some guiding principles such as longevity of materials, impeccable construction, high quality and the importance of aesthetics, as demonstrated from the great classics, many still in production since 1950.

The great American design classics were in fact the starting point of the Vitra catalog, thanks to the agreement already in 1946 with the American Herman Miller for the purchase of the rights to produce the vast collection of Charles and Ray Eames in Europe. Willi Fehlbaum was struck by the plans of the spouses Eames during a trip to America and wanted at all costs to produce them and propose them to the European market. Masterpieces such as the Eames Chair, the Aluminum Group, the Upholstered Lounge Chair, the Elephant Stool, the Fiberglass chairs … therefore began to be known and appreciated also in Europe thanks to Vitra. Subsequently to this production were added the works of other historical masters of international design such as George Nelson, Verner Panton, Jean Prouvé and to follow, in more recent years, the works of contemporary designers and architects such as Antonio Citterio, the Bouroullec brothers, Mario Bellini, Ron Aram, Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda, Philippe Starck …

After a terrible fire, which devastated the entire factory in 1981, the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw was called to design the new factory, ready in just 6 months, which was joined in 1986 by another building by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, starting what will become the future Vitra Campus, or the most important grouping in Europe and probably in the world of contemporary architecture in a limited space. Among the many buildings we can mention the Vitra Design Museum by Frank O. Gehry from 1989, the Tadao Conference pavilion from 1993, the Zaha Hadid Fire Station from 1993, the installation in 2003 of a petrol designed in 1953 by Jean Prouvé until the most recent VitraHaus by the architects of Basel Herzog & de Meuron in 2010, the Diogene structure of Renzo Piano in 2013 or the factory of the Japanese studio SAANA in 2013. The Vitra Campus has become in a few years destination much frequented by design enthusiasts and not only, thanks to the guided visits to the various factories, the numerous exhibitions and displays on design in its museum and to many initiatives related to the world of design and art.

Currently the Vitra catalog is divided into 2 parts. one dedicated to the home, the Home Collection, and one dedicated to contract and office, with a lot of sensitivity towards smart working. In these 2 parts the proposals of the Masters of design such as the Eames, Jean Prouvé, Verner Panton are always balanced … and the contemporary projects of designers such as the Bouroullec brothers, Hella Jongerius, Konstanto Grcic, Jasper Morrison and many others.

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