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ECLIPSE /4

KAEKO /5/

PAULISTANO /6 7 8 9/

GAIVOTA /10/

FDC1 /11/

PMR /12 13/

TRIBO /14 15/

PEGLEV /16 17/

PELICANO /18/

MOEBIUS /19/

NUALA /20/ PHOTO /21/

/MICHEL ARNOULT

RENAUD BONZON

FLAVIO DE CARVALHO

RAFIC FARAH

PIERRE GONALONS

MAURICIO KLABIN

ILSE LANG

PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA

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GABI-In 1990, Renaud Bonzon took up the challenge of any furni-ture designer: to create a high quality chair both beautiful and affordable.For this creation he chose the plywood technique that enabled him to use a minimum quantity of material while creating comfortable curves.

A key feature of this chair is to be composed of only two parts: side and crosspiece. Unlike many chairs, these crosspieces themselves constitute both seat and back and structure the whole frame. Another remarkable feature that brings both elegance and

character to this chair is the triangle formed by the junction of the three plywood stripes that constitute the side of the chair.

In 1990, year of its crea-tion, the Gabi chair won two prestigious design awards in Brazil, the MOVESP prize and the one of the Museo da Casa Brasileira. At the same time comfortable and elegant in its composition , this chair is light, stackable and very resistant.

dining chairdesigned by Renaud Bonzon

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-Material: beech plywood-Finishing: natural, black or walnut stained-Dimensions: (w) 46.5cm x (d) 50cm x (h) 81cmSeat height: 46.5cm

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ECLIPSE table lamp

-Electrical characteristics:220V - standard bulb E27 - max. power 60wconforms to EC standards-Materials:polyethylene - polypropylene - steel-Lamp dimensions:(h) 36cm - (Ø) 32cm - cord (l) 170cm_Packaging dimensions:(l) 35cm - (w) 35cm - (h) 5cm

-“ With the Eclipse lamp, I overcame the trauma of overpriced design. The lamp was ready a long time before it was produced. I had the concept, but I decided to launch it only when the price was right. Pieces of design must be accessible. It is not relevant to have a project that only half dozen people can buy. We need popular objects. One of my friends, the famous jeweller Antonio Bernardo, said the Eclipse was a victory because I was proving that something beautiful and good could also be cheap. ”

-This scheming and attractive lamp is the original Maurício Klabin’s model, which is part of the Museum of Modern Art of New York’s permanent collection. Manufactured from a single plastic band rolled up on it, the structure can be manipulated to change the form and the orientation of the light. The metal arches are equipped with small plastic parts making possible to uphold the lamp in various positions. The Eclipse lamp is delivered in the original Maurício Klabin’s packaging, similar to a “pizza box”.

designed by Mauricio KlabinKAEKO-Rafic Farah first took interest in creating furniture after designing Doctor Kaeco’s office. He then decided to continue designing and manufacturing objects and furniture, mostly lamps and this coffee table in 1989, for his clients and friends.Doctor Kaeco is a tall woman with deep black hair of Japanese descent. She is characterized by her natural elegance, her optimism and her determination.

-The graphic structure of this object is the reflection of her sophisticated and refined appearance: a Chinese ink calligraphy on a rice paper.

The Kaeko coffee table is a perfect illustration of Rafic Farah’s conception of design: simple and sophisticated.

coffee table

-Materials:Base: polished stainless steel or black painted carbon steel - solid bar (Ø) 16mm Glass top: 10 mm tempered glass-Dimensions: (h) 33cm - (Ø) 110cm

designed by Rafic Farah

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PAULISTANOdesigned by Paulo Mendes da Rocha

-Designed in 1957 by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, the Paulis-tano armchair was, for many years part of the lounges of the famous Athletic Club of São Paulo. -The constructivist concept of the structure, made up from a single bended bar of steel, and its cover, made up of leather or cotton, procure to this armchair an aesthetic lightness and an incompa-rable comfort. The Paulistano armchair emerges from the past to show that the purity and the elegance of its lines are timeless: a masterpiece.

armchair

-Developed in a narrow rela-tionship with Paulo Mendes da Rocha himself, the Paulistano armchair is one of the two available pieces of furniture created by the 2006 Architec-ture Pritzker Prize laureate. Until now this armchair was accessible to only collectors, Objekto, the exclusive world-wide fully licensed manufac-turer of the architect, brings to all this major masterpiece of the 20th century.Introduced in December 2007 in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) the Paulis-tano joined the most iconic pieces of design.

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-Materials-Frames: solid bar (Ø) 19mm• polished stainless steel • phosphated carbon steel• carbon steel with black or white high durability outdoor paint-Dimensions -(w) 70cm x (d) 70cm x (h) 82cm

-Covers:• Full grain leather - vege-tanned - semi- aniline tanning - made in France 7 colors• 100% cotton canvas weaved in France (toile des Vosges) waterproof, rotproof and stain-proof 9 colors• Stainless steel mesh cover-

PAULISTANOOUTDOOR armchair-A must-have lounge chair designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, 2006 Pritzker Prize winner. The Paulistano lounge chair is a timeless classic of design now available in a new outdoor version.

-The special outdoor frame, made of carbon steel with a high durability black or white paint, and the cover, made of a 100% cotton canvas weaved in France with spe-cial waterproof, rotproof and stain-proof treatments, allow an outdoor use for those who want to enjoy the extrem comfort of the Paulistano on a terrace or balcony.

Leather - 7 colorsCoversFrames

Phosphated carbon steel

Polished Stainless steel

Painted steel - 2 colors

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Indoor Indoor

Indoor / outdoorIndoor

Canvas - 9 colors Mesh

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FDC1-Deemed by Le Corbusier as a «romantic revolutionary», Flávio de Carvalho was a man of many skills who got involved in an innovative and provocative way in many artistic fields and particularly in design and architecture areas.His concepts of design and architecture are moved principally by the imagination and correspond to the new forms of living and thinking. For this man recognized today as one of the Brazilian modern architecture pre-cursors, interior design is as important as architecture.

armchair

-Within the framework of his main project, the Capuava ranch (1939), he designed most of its furniture, among them the famous FDC1 arm-chair created in the 50’s.The shape of this armchair is impressive by its graphic and sculptural aspects. Tribal mask or wink to sadomaso-chism, this noteworthy piece was at that time very avant-gardist and remains very modern.

-Materials:Frame: black painted carbon steelsolid bar - (Ø) 14mm-Leather cover: full grain leather - vege-tan-ned - semi-aniline tanning - made in France -Dimensions: (w) 78cm x (d) 70cm x (h) 81cm

GAIVOTA-The emblematic part of Re-naud Bonzon’s work is surely the rocking-chair «Gaivota», probably the most rewarded creation in Brazil, combining at the same time aestheti-cism and ergonomics.The curved forms of both seat and back were defined by Renaud Bonzon, as he was sat in deep snow during a stay in French Alps and had a look at his bodyprint after standing up. Keeping ergono-mics in mind, Renaud wanted to reproduce this form. He paid a special attention to both dimensions and balance making this rocking chair

rocking/chair

very comfortable whatever the user size.For the sake of environ-ment he chose the plywood manufacturing process in order to give value to wood trimmings. Furthermore this process allowing the creation of large curves, Renaud took advantage of this property to introduce the movement in his creation.The design of the rocking- chair, its sinuous curves, irrevocably reminds the mo-vement even statically repre-sented on a picture. Elegance and comfort characterize the Gaivota.

-Assembly requiredMaterial: beech plywood-Finishing: natural, black or walnut stainedDimensions: (w) 58cm x (d) 109cm x (h) 90cm

designed by Renaud Bonzon designed by Flavio de Carvalho

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-Materials:Seat: painted steel sheetBase: black painted carbon style solid bar (Ø) 25mmCushion: genuine leather-Dimensions: (l) 161cm x (w) 53cm x (h) 75cm

PMR-« In the middle of the 80’s I visited the spring ma-nufacturer Indústrias de Molas Sueden in São Paulo. A powerful factory of cold bended steel springs bound as well to locomotive as to delicate motor mechanisms. There I saw 25 cm wide steel coils as thin as a paper sheet. I immediately thought of the idea of a human body stretched out on this thin flexible sheet like floating over the ground (Henry Moore!?).

-To reach the width I needed I put together two sheets while leaving an empty and longitudinal space between these in order to release the spinal column and to allow the body to relax on the muscles. This space also enabled me to fix a small cylindrical cushion for the neck.

The transverse bars, which link the two steel sheets, were strategically distri-buted all over the length of

seat in order to enable three different inclinations.

I did not make any particu-lar research to achieve it. This idea was born from the continuation of the Paulista-no armchair concept. An idea focused on steel flexibility properties. »

Paulo Mendes da RochaDecember 2009

designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha

chaise lounge

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bar stoolTRIBO-Furniture created by Ilse Lang are particularly no-teworthy in the way that they always combine aestheticism and function. Tribo stool is surely one of the most beautiful examples. The slots distributed all around the circumference of this very comfortable round and wide-ned seat give to this creation a very contemporary charac-ter. These slots also enable to stack the stools.A shape linked with a specific use: here stacking. To design this creation, she took as a starting point the traditional wooden stools used by the

“gauchos” - southern Brazilian cowboys - as they gathered together around campfires while drinking maté.

A great comfort, a pure design, either table or bar model: Tribo is the stool you will love.

designed by Ilse Langlow and dining stoolsTRIBO

-Assembly required-Materials:Seat: solid oakFinishing: natural or walnut stainedBase: polished stainless steel - solid bar (Ø) 16mm-Dimensions:Stool - (Ø) 40cm x (h) 40cmDining stool - (Ø) 40cm x (h) 45cmBar stool - (Ø) 40cm x (h) 76cm

designed by Ilse Lang

armchairPEGLEV-Created in 1968 by the French designer Michel Arnoult, one of the fathers of the Ready-To-Assemble furniture (RTA) and the flat packaging in the Fifties, the Peg-Lev armchair, literally «I take and I carry», is one of the premises of the current Cash & Carry. This designer who always ardently defended the democratiza-tion of design at the expense of any creative vanity focused on flat-pack making possible the customers to carry easily their furniture, revolutionary approach for that time.

-The stylishness underlined by both simple and modern lines, the use of noble ma-terials, the great care paid to the manufacturing and fi-nishing processes, bring this iconic and very comfortable creation a timeless touch. Whatever the version you will choose, armchair or rocking chair, you always will appre-ciate this singular piece. A piece that will pass through the generations.

-Assembly required-Materials:Frame: solid walnut or solid oakLeather cover : full grain leather - vege tan-ned - semi-aniline tanning - made in France -Dimensions: (w) 62cm x (d) 72cm x (h) 74cm

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Designed by Michel Arnoult

PEGLEVrocking/chair

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Designed by Michel Arnoult

armchair and rocking/chairPELICANO

-Created in 2003, the Peli-cano is the last creation of the French designer Michel Arnoult, one of the fathers of the Ready-To-Assemble furniture (RTA) and the flat packaging in the 50’s. This piece is surely one of the best illustrations of his huma-nistic vision of design and its contributions to modern world.The elegance underlined by both simple and modern lines, the quality of materials, the great care paid to the manufacturing and finishing processes, inspire comfort and beauty to this iconic

piece of furniture available in two versions : armchair and rocking-chair.The ingenious cover fixing system, enabling the body suspension makes the seating position very com-fortable. Combined with the smoothly swing of the rocker you almost feel like in a ham-mock.At 81 years old Michel Ar-noult receives for his Peli-cano armchair the Prize of the Museo da Casa Brasileira, showing the new generation of designers that his concept is still alive and never ceased to be topical in our global and competitive world.

-Assembly required-Materials:Frame: solid walnut or solid oakCanvas cover: 100% cotton canvas weaved in France (toile des Vosges)-Dimensions: (w) 54cm x (d) 67cm x (h) 73cm

designed by Michel Arnoult

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MOEBIUS coffee table

-This table was discovered at a flea market in Parma, Italy. With this creation, this unknown creator leaves a trace of the artistic trail explored by designers from the 50’s. The simplicity of the lines doesn’t take anything away from this intriguing and complex 3 pieces assemblage and refers us directly to the moebius ribbon created in 1858 by the German mathe-matician August Ferdinand Möbius, ribbon with no end portrayed numerous times in Escher’s work.

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-Reminiscence of the past, the Moebius table is a classic. It blends rhythmic forms and an evident practicality. -

Assembly required-Materials:Base: walnut stained beechwoodGlass top: 12 mm tempered glass-Dimensions: (h) 51cm - (d) 70cm

NUALA PHOTO-Photo is a lampshade inspired by the technical lightings on the filming or shooting sets.The filter and the illusion of a double lampshade bring a 40’s «film noir» look to the space it lights.

-Created in 1990 by Renaud Bonzon, the Nuala lamp base is manufactured from plywood. This is the only plywood lamp base known til now with such a large-scale. Each piece is handmade by skilled craftsmen. This crea-tion’s elegance, lightness and fineness astonish all.

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-Photo lampshade (available separately)-Materials:fabrics - paper - styrene - pvc - steel-Colours: white/cream or white/black-Dimensions: (h) 25cm - (Ø) 65cm

designed by Pierre Gonalonsdesigned by Renaud Bonzon

-Nuala base (available separately)2 versions: natural or black stained -Material:ash plywood_Dimensions:(h) 220cm x (w) 170cm x (t) 20cm

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lampshadewooden lamp base

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PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA Architect, designer (1928) - Victória - Brazil-Paulo Mendes da Rocha is an international reference of the Brazilian architecture. Influenced at his beginning by his elders Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Eduardo Reidy and the «brutalist» João Vilanova Artigas, he is part of those who knew, in their practice, to create an international style while keeping well anchored the Brazilian spirit. His work is assimilated to the «São Paulo’s brutalist architecture school», a movement of creators focused on forms, simple materials and on a certain ethic. A brutalism which refers to the rough concrete. He creates works at the same time sincere and daring, imaginative and unexpected and always leaves an important place to the social dimension in his art. The architect is a Man who carries a sincere interest in humankind, who has the role to create the most adequate and viable habi-tat possible. In that sense, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a moder-nist; nothing distracts him from his vision for a better future. In 2006, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is awarded for his all carrier by the Pritzker Prize of Architecture.

• Pritzker Prize of Architecture - 2006• Mies Van der Rohe Award for Latin America - 2000• Museo da Casa Brasileira Award - 1987• Permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), Architecture and Design department.

RENAUD BONZON Designer(1954) - France-Renaud Bonzon’s work is mostly based on wood work, particularly on the technique of the plywood. Recently he explored the fields of iron and aluminium. The emble-matic creation of Reno Bonzon is surely the rocking chair «Gai-vota», probably the object most rewarded in Brazil, combining aestheticism, comfort and ergonomics. The «Galho» lamp, «twig» in English, was selected to be part of the International De-sign Book 2000 by Ingo Maurer.

• Brazilian Biennale of Design’s selec-tion - 1990• Museo da Casa Brasileira Award - 1988 - 1990• MOVESP Prize - 1988 - 1990

FLÁVIO DE CARVALHOPainter, architect, writer, theatre director, designer, sculptor, engineer(1899-1973) - Brazil-Flávio de Carvalho was one of the main artists of the Brazilian modern movement. Deemed by Le Corbusier as a «romantic re-volutionary», Flávio de Carvalho was a man of many skills who got involved in an innovative and provocative way in artistic fields as different as painting, architec-ture, writing, theatre, design or sculpture. He is recognized today as a visionary who bequeathed us a rich and eclectic work. Irre-verent and provocative cultural

leader, he is considered as a precursor of multimedia Arts.The image of this provocative and disrespectful man is particu-larly related to his iconoclasts «performances» carried out as well on the artistic as behavioral levels. He is today regarded as one of the precursors of the 60’s « Happenings » in the United States. But before everything, Flávio de Carvalho is a worldwide renow-ned painter. His style is classified as expressionist with surrealist and fauvists looks. His paintings are parts of the collections of the world most important museums of modern art.

PIERRE GONALONSDesigner, interior architect, art director(1977) France-Lyon born with an Italian culture background, Pierre Gonalons offers a vision of design thatcombines an echo of decorative arts or popular culture to mini-malist lines.He sees his times as a mee-ting between the past and the future and his work, deliberately between the anonymous and the spectacular, gives priority to the expression of the material and how it is used, be it in a modern or a traditional manner.Graduate from Camondo School in Paris, Pierre Gonalons founded his studio when he was 25.He also founded in 2004 his own furniture company, Ascète, of which he signs all collections of furniture, lights and objects.He works with various brands for product conception, space setting and creative strategy.

• Best breakthrough designer - 2007 Wallpaper Design Awards.

RAFIC FARAH Designer, architect, artistic director, graphic designer, photographer (1948) - Brazil -Rafic Farah says about himself that he was particularly in-fluenced by the Mediterranean artists and that he chose to design by chance. At the end of the 80’s, Rafic Farah really launched into the design of objects and furniture. One of his best creations is, without doubt, the coffee table initially designed for Doctor Kaeco. His creations are uncluttered, almost ethereal, and made of simple lines.

MICHEL ARNOULTDesigner, architect(1922-2005) - Paris - France-Born in Paris and adoptive Brazi-lian, Michel Arnoult is recognized as one of the fathers of both Ready-To-Assemble furniture (RTA) and flat packaging. He always ardently defended the democratization of design at the expense of any creative vanity.From 1952 he starts designing simple furniture and focuses its researches on the RTA furniture concept. He particularly takes an interest in production optimi-zation using standard parts, common to various furniture, and volumes optimization using flat-packs. This approach is regarded as the premises of the current Cash & Carry. He also focuses on a concept he calls the «firm com-

fort»: a well-studied design com-bined with a very great quality of manufacturing bring comfort to furniture only made of wood.

• Roberto Simonsen Prize of Industrial Design - 1964• Museo da Casa brasileira Award - 2003

MAURÍCIO KLABINDesigner, photographer and mechanical engineer(1952-2000) - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil-Maurício Klabin’s main concern was to inspire a feeling of wellbeing and protection; more precisely, to give the sensation that one can feel when giving a hug. He chose to create objects which contain and cocoon. His work is characterized by the ab-sence of salient angles, complex requirements or complicated instructions. His projects are at the same time simple and direct. He also fought to impose the idea that design had to be accessible to everybody.In 2006, his main creation, the iconic Eclipse lamp, integrated the permanent collection of the Architecture and Design’s department of the MoMA in New York.

• Permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), Architecture and Design department.

ILSE LANGDesigner, architect(1959) - Caçapava do Sul (RS) - Brazil-Graduated in Architecture, Ilse Lang created her first piece of furniture in 1988 and took part in the Movesp contest. 1st prize winner, she decided to dedicate herself exclusively to furniture design and forgot for a while her architect career. Difficult but crowned with success choice since Ilse Lang is recognized today as one of the greatest revelations of the contemporary Brazilian design.Ilse Lang was born in Caçapava, a small town located in southern Brazil, very close to Uruguay and Argentina. This “Gaúcho” land is far from this tropical Brazil so often pointed up. It is from this cold, monochromatic and vast region that Ilse Lang gets her inspiration.Regarding Ilse Lang, innovation is to make things even simpler than they already are. She unders-tands simplification as an evolu-tion: to focus on what is essenti-al. A successful design cannot be reduced to a visual aspect nor to an innovating technical answer. A successful design is a balance between form and function. The coexistence of these two concepts is the important thing. Her stroke is simple and pure. Cleverness and innovation give her design an amazing look.

• Movesp award- 1988• Museo da Casa Brasileira award - 2000• Movelsul award - 2002• Liceu de Artes o Oficios award - 2002• IF award - 2007• IF award - 2009• Idea Brazil award - 2009

OBJEKTO

-Fully licensed manufacturer100% made in Europe -Activity:Fully licensed manufactu-rer of furniture, luminaries and objects, Objekto carries worldwide the creations of a selection of famous designers such as Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Maurício Klabin.Objekto breaks the current monotony by offering pro-ducts which convey a great emotional aspect. They are original yet functional. Under the inspired hands of the designers, folklore, constructivist and functiona-list concepts are combined to give rise to sophisticated and innovative furniture which break with the actual orthodoxy while keeping the imagination and the poetry of the form.-Philosophy:A strong and wholesome relation between the designer and the fully licensed manu-facturer, a common objective supported by complementary skills, a mutual understan-ding of each others is for Objekto the key to success. The respect of the designers’s projects is for Objekto the base of a relation of confi-dence; the products are developed and manufactured according to their wishes and recommendations.

-Distribution:Objekto carries all its pro-ducts on a World exclusivity basis, and focuses its deve-lopment on a very selective distribution network com-posed by retailers of furni-ture, luminaries and objects of top-of-the range contem-porary design. Objekto’s products are carried all over the world.-Quality:Objekto is very concerned by the environmental protection and the quality of mate-rials. Quality begins with the selected materials coming from reliable suppliers. Our furniture are manufactured in accordance with rigorous standards by high skilled operators and craftsmen. Each of our products pass a very advanced quality control before being packed.-Copyrights:Because of their high artistic value and their particular and single creative nature, all creations of the Objekto’s collection are protected by copyrights and patents. Legal copyrights protection is en-sured during all the life of the author and 70 years after its death. Objekto is very invol-ved in the fight against copies in partnership with other manufacturers.

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