MONOLITH Armchair by Ross Lovegrove (2013) from MOROSO
The MONOLITH Armchair was featured at the MOROSO Stand at the 2013 Salone del Mobile, in Milan. Designed by Ross Lovegrove, this chair attributes its aesthetic to the sculpture of a solid block and its design forms from the ideology of melting. The chair’s finish in silver metallic enhances its natural form and character, whilst the plastic version (especially the white one) inherits connections with melting polar caps.
Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary who’s work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional world.
Inspired by the logic and beauty of nature his design possess a trinity between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form, creating what many industrial leaders see as the new aesthetic expression for the 21st Century. There is always embedded a deeply human and resourceful approach in his designs, which project an optimism, and innovative vitality in everything he touches from cameras to cars to trains, aviation and architecture.
The following video features Ross Lovegrove talking about design and his MONOLITH & DIATOM Chairs designed for MOROSO (video Copyright by Archiexpo.com, Courtesy of MOROSO):
Born 1958 in Cardiff, Wales. Graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with 1st Class BA Hons Industrial design in 1980. Master of Design of Royal College of Art, London in 1983.
In the early 80’s worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on projects such as Walkmans for Sony, Computers for Apple Computers, later moved to Paris as consultant to Knoll International;. Being author of the highly successful Alessandri Office System.
Invited to join the Atelier de Nimes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark, consulting to amongst others Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont.
Returning to London in 1986 he has completed projects for amongst others Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Idee, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Apple Computers, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Motorola, Biomega, LvMH, Yamagiwa Corporation, Tag Heuer, Hackman, Alias, Herman Miller, Artemide, Japan Airlines and Tokyo Ito Architects in Japan.
Winner of numerous international awards his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection. His work is shown in many exhibitions around the world and held in permanent collections of various design museums around the world including Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), Design Museum in London and Vitra Design Museum Weil Am Rhein, Basel, Switzerland.
Since 1952 MOROSO has been designing its sofas, armchairs and accessories with well known designers such as Ron Arad, Carlo Colombo, Enrico Franzolini, Marc Newson, Toshiyuki Kita and Patricia Urquiola. MOROSO has been constructing its sofas and armchairs aiming at top quality. For its quality, the company was the first producer of upholstered furniture in Italy to receive on 24 June 1994 the ISO 9000 certification for firm management and the ISO 9001 certification for design, production and customer service.
Since there is a close connection between quality and impact on the environment, MOROSO has decided to use “clean”, nonpolluting production processes, and materials that are natural or as recyclable as possible.
In the video that follows, Ross Lovegrove explains his approach to design (video by Phaidon Press):
Sources: www.rosslovegrove.com, www.moroso.it
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