Edra in Wonderland

This year at the Milan Furniture Fair, Edra found themselves in a magical place, suspended in time, and aptly named their new collection “Edra in Wonderland”.

The collection privileges natural materials, worked to a minimum so as to conserve their flavour. “They embody a concept of comfort whereby a sofa, for example, displays that slightly unkempt look that belongs to an object of affection – that is, to the things we really use and love,” says Edra.

Other hot items in the new collection include:

Grinza armchair by Fernando and Humberto Campana

The Campana brothers, in their years with Edra, have always considered the material with which each piece is realised as a value unto itself – from the wooden slats of the Favela chair to the long strands of raffia feaured in the Cabana container, the curved stainless steel of the Corallo chair and the 120 meters of velvet tubing feature in the Boa sofa.

Now there’s Grinza, which has a steel-tube frame and polyurethane padding, with great expanses of leather or eco-fur draped softly over the structure.

Sfatto sofa by Francesco Binfaré

Francesco Binfaré, in designing his new sofa, observed painters in their studios, where the course of existence had left marks and folds on a threadbare sofa. Here Binfaré recognised a concept of comfort as intriguing as it is distant from the code of orderly perfection.

The result is Sfatto, which means “disheveled”, with its ultra-soft padding and adjustable backrest covered in heavy fabrics. Achieving this informal design was preceded by complex research, consisting on the one hand of sophisticated engineering and, on the other, a long process of manual finishing. With one simple movement, Sfatto allows the user to easily switch from a classic low divan to a high, inviting sofa.

Alice armchair designed by Jacopo Foggini

Jacopo Foggini stunned the design world by proposing luminous creatures with organic forms and brilliant colours made of translucent plastic cord. Today, Foggini revives this style, re-proposing the plastic cord in a form that seems to tangle and unwind to create a tremulous armchair which in reality is absolutely solid.

Made by hand and left unfinished, the chair is available in lemon yellow, petroleum green and fuchsia pink, all mixed together.

Edra furniture is availbale form Limeline.

More information: www.edra.com and www.limeline.co.za