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DESIGNING THE FUTURE: FURNITURE
There is nothing quite like giving your living room a makeover and gathering inspiration for your new interior. LXRY List 2021 showcases several pieces you will want in your home.
There's nothing more fun than giving your living room a makeover and getting inspiration for your new interior. LXRY List 2021 showcases various pieces that you will definitely want to own.Online editor: Natasha Hendriks
High water furniture
The regular flooding in Venice inspired the Italian designer Federico Rosa to create his 'high water furniture'. He protects his wooden furniture with 'socks' of gilded bronze, in which he incorporates stylized mollusks, shells and seaweed as traces of past floods – a grim warning of climate change. The stylish yet thought-provoking furniture line aptly named 'Acqua Alta' consists of a chair, a coffee table and a mirror. Remnants of Venetian dock piles were used for production and recycled materials were used for the cladding.
Bell chair
The stackable chair 'Bell Chair' weighs only 2,7 kilos. German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic designed it in such a way that it is produced in less than a minute and with an absolute minimum of material. The chair is made from recycled polypropylene and is itself 100 percent recyclable. And the sustainability doesn't stop there: the specially designed storage and transport system also saves energy. You can choose from the colors Sunrise, High Noon and Midnight.
Skull chair
A skull grins at you in the back of this armchair. Inspired by seventeenth-century vanitas paintings, Vladi Rapaport lightheartedly reminds the user that earthly life is finite. His 'Skull Chair' reminds the user to enjoy every moment of life. The 'Color Table', with a length and width of up to six meters, is constructed from multi-colored steel tubes and clamps.
