GranTorino Coupé Bed

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Designer Bio

Brand: Poltrona Frau

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Jean-Marie Massaud designs a more compact and minimalist version of the GranTorino Bed. The key compositional element of the GranTorino Coupé Bed is its smaller headboard, which creates an elegant sense of continuity with the bed frame. Delicate X-shaped hand-stitching using contrasting thread decorates the quilt padding of the headboard. Birch plywood is used for the structure of the GranTorino Coupé Bed headboard and the soft padding of the quilt is in polyester wadding. Sides in spruce blockboard and footboard in poplar plywood with light polyurethane foam padding. The upholstery of the GranTorino Coupé Bed can come in Pelle Frau® leather or in the versions in which saddle-leather is combined with leather or fabric, and leather is combined with fabric: Cuoio Saddle Extra leather or Pelle Frau® leather for the back of the headboard and the bed frame and Pelle Frau® leather or removable fabric for the quilt. Refined "X"-stitching, carried out by hand with contrasting thread, enriches the cover of the quilt. The saddle-leather version has relief stitching and the clean cut edges are finished by hand. The cylindrical aluminium feet can be covered in Pelle Frau® leather or painted black. The Gran Torino Coupé Bed also comes in a version complete with storage unit. The opening system makes it possible to access the storage space in two different ways. As well as the regular vertical lifting of the bed surface, it can also be raised horizontally so it is easier to make the bed. Both mechanisms have a safety lock. The base of the storage unit is made from MDF panels.

About Designer
Jean-Marie Massaud	Born in Toulouse in 1966, Jean-Marie Massaud graduated in 1990 from Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Paris. He began to work both in Asia and in France, finally opening his own office in Paris in 1994. Since than, he has dedicated himself to industrial and furniture design, building important relationships with brands such as Authentics, Baccarat and Magis. His collaboration with Marc Berthier and his work in the field of town planning led him towards design and architecture. He is concerned with design in various contexts, industrial products and furniture. His contextual approach centres on research into the essential, within which the individual remains the centre of attention. It is a work upheld by research into the senses, magic, and vital emotion which brings him to work with very different brands: Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Cappellini, Cacharel, Lancôme, Tronconi and Yamaha offshore. His works have been awarded several prizes and many of his designs are nowadays on show in the design collections of the major museums worldwide: from Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Paris and Zurich: from the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris to the permanent collections of the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, of The Chicago Athenaeum- Museum of Architecture and Design, of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and of The Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris.

About Designer

Jean-Marie Massaud

Born in Toulouse in 1966, Jean-Marie Massaud graduated in 1990 from Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Paris. He began to work both in Asia and in France, finally opening his own office in Paris in 1994. Since than, he has dedicated himself to industrial and furniture design, building important relationships with brands such as Authentics, Baccarat and Magis.

His collaboration with Marc Berthier and his work in the field of town planning led him towards design and architecture. He is concerned with design in various contexts, industrial products and furniture. His contextual approach centres on research into the essential, within which the individual remains the centre of attention. It is a work upheld by research into the senses, magic, and vital emotion which brings him to work with very different brands: Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Cappellini, Cacharel, Lancôme, Tronconi and Yamaha offshore. His works have been awarded several prizes and many of his designs are nowadays on show in the design collections of the major museums worldwide: from Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Paris and Zurich: from the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris to the permanent collections of the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, of The Chicago Athenaeum- Museum of Architecture and Design, of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and of The Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris.