Fragile │ 2022
PD23 Winner
Category:Furniture - Seating UnitsLocation:Ventimiglia, ItalyDesigner:Alexander Lervik, Lervik Design AB., Stockholm, SwedenManufacturer: Lervik Design AB., Stockholm, Sweden
The Clodette chair deduces from memories of childhood, precisely of a time in which everything around one appears humongous such as tables that were too high, chairs too big, sofas too low and so on. Through this vast amplitude, one feels encapsulated or rather protected and free.
The spherical chair has an oversized form that aims to take its users back to a younger time when furniture felt just as big. It is made up of several segments that are placed together to form a sphere. The front of the sphere is removed of these segments to make a seat, back and armrests.
Clodette is upholstered in a soft, white fabric that complements the chair’s cloud-like form. The soft appearance is additionally an allusion to when you would stare at the sky and the clouds seemed to have had the most incredible shapes, you started having the wildest, yet facile and carefree imaginations.
DESIGNER BIO
Alexander Lervik is one of Scandinavia’s foremost designers with several products in the permanent collections at the National Museum in Oslo and the National Museum in Stockholm. He works with leading Scandinavian brands such as Designhouse Stockholm, Adea, Noon, Zero and Orrefors/kosta Boda. Internationally, he has collaborated with, among others, Moroso in Italy.
In 2007, he scanned his own brain and 3d printed it into the MYBRAIN lamp in a limited edition, which is described by several auction houses as the first signature object in Scandinavia for 3D print technology. Among his most famous products are the Brighthandle door handle that communicates with colored light and the light swing sense.
Alexander Lervik’s design is timeless Scandinavian with a twist – often containing an innovation and often with new areas of use. Alexander has had solo exhibitions at the National Museum in Stockholm, Sven Harry’s Art Museum in Stockholm and a retrospective exhibition at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm in 2018.
More works from the designer: www.lervik.se