Cestlavie
Gam Fratesi took their inspiration from the
traditional sewing basket when designing the modern and highly elegant Cestlavie accessories. The textural
sensations of the saddle-leather and the lightness of the metal design come
together in an evocative and stylish visual synthesis.
Intricate processing
showcases the leather culture and top-quality craftsmanship with which Poltrona
Frau has always been associated. Skilfully handwoven straps of Cuoio Saddle
Extra leather give form to the casing, one by one. Supported by a tubular
aluminium structure, the Cestlavie storage basket appears to be suspended on
slender, almost graphic, steel legs. The depth of the saddle-leather and the
clean metal create interesting light effects. Cestlavie is a storage “basket” but also a side table. The top part, upholstered
in Pelle Frau® leather, has a disk-shaped folding cover that provides access to
the inside whilst also acting as a practical surface. Every detail is valuable.
The interwoven strips of saddle-leather are dyed tone-on-tone, also at the
edges, using techniques typically associated with the finest small leather
goods. The saddle-leather is also refined on the inside surface with a
transparent protective wax treatment. Galvanic treatment for the steel frame
with gunmetal grey or burnished and blasted finish.
About Designer | |
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GamFratesi |
Stine
Gam, Danish architect with a master in furniture design. Enrico Fratesi Italian
architect graduated with a master in industrial design. Gam and Fratesi gained
experience as architects in architecture studio in Japan and Scandinavia before
establishing their own design studio.
The studio is based in
Copenhagen. GamFratesi’s design takes its creative drive from a fusion of
tradition and renewal and in an experimental approach to their chosen materials
and techniques. With their dual traditional background, Stine Gam and Enrico
Fratesi draw on the classic Danish furniture and craft tradition as well as the
classic Italian intellectual and conceptual approach. Understanding a tradition
and addressing it actively in the workshop makes it possible to expand on it.
From this cross-cultural substrate they create furniture that respectfully
reflects tradition while also featuring unique embedded stories, symbols and
associations, often expressed in a minimalist idiom. GamFratesi have received
significant awards including Finn Juhl Prize 2015, Elle Decoration International
design award (EDIDA) as International Young Designer of the Year 2013,
Wallpaper* Design Award as Best interior 2017, Best Designer 2015 by BoBedre,
Best Designer 2009 by RUM, Invited as Guest of Honor at the Stockholm Furniture
Fair 2014. With their products GamFratesi received final selection Compasso
D’Oro, IF Award, German Design Awards and Good Design Awards. |