STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2008 - VIVERO NOVELTIES
Batman Design Ilkka Suppanen The Batman chair has been designed for conference rooms and lounge areas. The formpressed uniform back and arms – resembling a folded paper – creates a nestlike seat or space. The chair is related to the prevously designed ”Rosebud” chair by Ilkka Suppanen. Batman is delivered either with a tubular or a round base.
Theatron Design Kaisa Luukkanen Theatron is an all-purpose chair for lounges, conference rooms and visitors. The versatile chair with high arms enables casual, easychair seating. During the design process, emphasis on a clear, discreet and functional form was important as well as on the economic and durable construction. This is obtained by producing both the arms and the seat part from one single pressed veneer piece using a two-way pressing method.
Ellipse Design Timo Ripatti The Ellipse chair creates its own protective and personal space for its user. When empty, the chair is open and inviting, outstanding and a durable piece of furniture. Ellipse is an individual and independent entity but nevertheless easy to group in lobbies, bars or other public areas.
DaCapo Design Yrjö Wiherheimo DaCapo – from the beginning as the music term goes. Again, evaluation of applicability, ergonomics, comfort, serial thinking, construction, production orientation, appearance, durability, transportation, packing and costs. From the beginning – once again. Concentration on the essentials, deleting the unnecessary. Achieving the eternal beauty of the small chair. DaCapo – a light small chair.
Wallu Design Yrjö Wiherheimo Wallu is a study of composition of basic elements, the first image and the reality of the finished product, hard and soft, abundant and scarce, thin and thick, unkind and friendly, colour and colourless , systematic and random, matter and essence, big and small. Wallu is an easychair, Wallu is a sofa. Wallu is a twohundred pound light fairy.
Noon bench Design Timo Mikkonen The bench completes the Noon furniture series around the same design and construction theme. The sustaining theme of this furniture collection is a minimalistic form and also a study of boardshaped elements within the furniture context.
VIVERO awarded the ”INTERIOR PHENOMENON 2007” Honorary Prize By Interior Designers SI.
“A strong sign of our time is the phenomenon of the designer driven company Vivero. For decades Vivero has predicted the future by developing its production processes and its innovative image. Vivero has the abitility to incorporate the creative work of designers into the business activity. The most recent update of this philosophy is the start-up and support of a new prototype workshop for young designers. The Vivero furniture collection is also worth a honorary. It represents a clean and modern design including comprehensive and continuous furniture. The Vivero contract furniture is characterized by exceptional humour and material combinations; the designs also suit modern private homes.”
HABITARE 2007
THEATRON CHAIR Design Kaisa Luukkanen 2007 Theatron chair is comfortable and light small chair with high armrests which allow you lift arms up, lay back and just relax. Theatron upholstery alternatives are seat upholstered or one-piece seat&back upholstered. Wooden parts are birch, natural colour or stained. Steel tube bases are powder painted or chromed. ”As a designer, I observe the world through shapes, forms, dimensions and colours. Selfexpression in addition to the visual and experienced environment have always been important to me and my design work is connected to these matters. I aim at a controlled and functional wholeness and poetical form. I would like to create intellectual objects though delicacy of forms. However, my starting point is that an object should be an article of necessity. There should also be a possibility that objects would contribute to a better world, for example towards a more ecological and comfortable world. I am inspired by various cultural phenomenons and technical developments and often also by beautiful, significant words with good linguistic instinct like ”earthair” (i.e. ”maailma”, the Finnish word for ”world”) and ”morning twilight” or ”dawn”.”
VIVERO NOVELTIES IN STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2007
NOON JA DAWN Noon and Dawn are lounge and reception area chairs designed by Timo Mikkonen. Noon, which was created first, is a straight, completely covered lounge chair. The smaller Dawn chair follows the same shape. You only sit in a more upright position and thus it is also suitable for conference rooms and restaurants.
VILTER The unadorned Vilter small chair, designed by Yrjö Wiherheimo, made of steel tube or solid birch frame. The Lines covers on the chairs are designed by Ilkka Suppanen for Marimekko.
SCARLETT Scarlett is a modern and light small chair designed by Ilkka Suppanen. The chair follows gently your body movements. The stackable Scarlett is available either uncovered, fully covered or with seat only covered. The frame, with or without arms, is made of 10 mm steel rod and the seat is formpressed.
SOFT KISS & SOFT PILVI Soft Kiss easy chair and Soft Pilvi sofa complete the Soft collection designed by Kai Korhonen. The idea is to use soft laminated polyurethane sheets as construction instead of traditional formpressed supporting components.
BRUNO MATHSSON AWARD 2006 TO ILKKA SUPPANEN Ilkka Suppanen has been awarded the Bruno Mathsson 2006 Prize. Ilkka Suppanen has as a designer and architect successfully cared for and developed the innovative, functionalistic scandinavian design tradition. With his creativity and professional ambition, he tests new materials and new technologies in an unconventional way. Ilkka Suppanen is one of those young Finnish designers, who with local sense and global perpective will continue the international story of Finnish design. www.mathsson-fonden.se
ASKO-AVONIUS PRIZ 2006 The Asko-Avonius Foundation has awarded interior architect Simo Heikkilä and professor Yrjö Wiherheimo the Asko-Avonius Prize in the year 2006 for their significant work within the field of interior and furniture design. The Asko-Avonius Prize is granted every third year. In the Prize motivation the Foundation mentions that Heikkilä and Wiherheimo ambitiously has concentrated on developing the Finnish furniture design and the use of wood in looking for new applications. They have worked both together and separately in addition to teaching within the profession.