12/12/2018 - Feelgood Designs will be at imm cologne in January with their new rattan collection, featuring an international cast that includes Kakī, by New Zealand designer, Jamie McLellan, and a new addition to the Tornaux lounge chair by the Danish designer Henrik Pedersen.
Both use the strength and quality of rattan as their salient feature. Feelgood sets the benchmark in rattan seating collections, with reissues of work by Japanese and Nordic designers from the 1950s and 1960s that have helped the woven fiber make a strong comeback in contemporary interiors.
They comment: 'Rattan naturally has many properties that high-tech materials try to imitate. Its high resistance and flexibility lend themselves to organic forms that mould themselves to the user’s body. Its low thermal conductivity and breathability enhance the user’s comfort and help the body maintain a constant temperature. Ecologically, rattan is fully biodegradable and renewable. Our hand-weaving production process consumes very little energy. Rattan is also a source of employment for locals and helps preserve ancestral techniques'.
The Kakī collection is named after the Maori word for the New Zealand black stilt, an endangered native bird. McLellan takes inspiration from his homeland in paying tribute its idiosyncratic fauna. Like their feathered namesakes, the Kakī collection chairs are characterized by the fine silhouette of their porte-à-faux powder-coated steel legs. This adds a touch of originality to the hand-crafted rattan seat. The chair comes in six different models, each melding comfort and function, and three colors - natural, lead grey and rust.
Henrik Pedersen complements his Tornaux lounge chair with a footstool, ideal for relaxation indoors or out. Like the lounge chair, it is made from hand-crafted rattan peel caning and a steel frame that looks exquisite and is perfectly stable. The outdoor version is in polyethylene, a synthetic that is ultra-resistant to the vagaries of the weather.
You can catch both designs at imm cologne from 14 to 20 January in Hall 3.1, stand 011.
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