May 28th, 2008

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Milan 08: Loveseat by London-based designer Jake Phipps has been put into production by Italian manufacturers RIVA1920.

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The double seat is made from solid cedar and can be used indoors or outside.

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The product was launched at the furniture fair in Milan last month.

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Posted by Rose Etherington

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26 Responses to “Loveseat by Jake Phipps”

  1. lin Says:

    wow cool. how weird.. sitting on a carved out cut-out piece of a 40 year old tree!

  2. Fling Says:

    Picture 1: our hero loveseat is in the shop about to be bought by Mr Swankypad.
    Picture 2: Mr Swankypad attempts to make Loveseat at ease by providing him with blanket and cushions at home in Chez Swankypad. Poor Loveseat spies with horror some baby loveseats ablaze on the fire altar thing.
    Picture 3: Mr. Swankypad leaves front door open…He’s off!! Down the garden and away!
    Picure 4: With the furniture police in hot pursuit, our hero is Somewhere In Cumbria…

    To Be Continued…

  3. L.Leng Says:

    This one is my favourate.

  4. M. Says:

    oh my god. imagine how old that tree is…
    at least 20 years.

    sad.

  5. edward Says:

    That baulk belongs in the home of some rude rustic, not the elegant perfection of that domicile. . Begone!

  6. tommi Says:

    poor tree, but guess it would be d’ ideal material for such form…

  7. dudenw Says:

    SAD…

  8. Honggo Says:

    a treeman was murdered

  9. zetre Says:

    So you can’t make furniture out of wood anymore??

  10. labforfun Says:

    Nice sculpture but not so “Europe-green”, nowadays the buyer are sensibilized… the sit-concept would works also in concrete (white beton) with only the sit area in wood!?

  11. Sam Says:

    if this is called ‘love seat’ and has two people on it, wouldnt they be seated facing the opposite sides? is that aesthetically a correct name? why am i even getting bothered to comment!

  12. CPCP Says:

    i think ‘chatseat’ or ‘idliketodiscussthisfacetofaceseat’ would be more appropriate - aint gonna be no love-makin’ across that central spline/edge

  13. mert ucer Says:

    i can’t stand seeing a cedar like this.

  14. edward Says:

    I agree that it’s a terrible waste of a cedar tree. Much better to leave it alive.
    As for the loveseat configuration, I suspect it’s from Victorian times when sex didn’t exist in polite society and a young virgin would naturally be more comfortable sitting next to a young gentleman in a way that would preclude roving hands oh say, massaging her thighs. Why anyone would want to resurrect this form is anyone’s guess. I suspect like most high end pieces, it is designed to look attractive or exclusive rather than functional.

  15. Winnie Says:

    i love to see the patterns of the grain of wood, but i think its too much a waste of wood..

  16. William Says:

    the reason its called a love seat… is because one person can sit in each seat and stare into each others eyes directly. not because you shag on it! thats called a bed people….or a car bonnet.

  17. Me Says:

    “i can’t stand seeing a cedar like this.” Lol

  18. eliottness Says:

    sympa comme tout

  19. zuy Says:

    Love seats as Harim Rashid pink’s seats for a french champagne company
    Nice wood work but is it green?

  20. zuy Says:

    i love the movie by Veuve Clicquot/ LVMH
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJJUJwL1wjk

  21. zuy Says:

    Williams pink karim explains the love seat…so the storytelling is the same
    but the product is in an other planet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMrlLtBgjg&feature=related

  22. zuy Says:

    On wall street journal , the loveseat of english based Jakes phipps…is in a pink version so NYC pink star designer Karim is not so far …

    http://www.jakephipps.com/pdf/wall%20street%20text.pdf

  23. zuy Says:

    i love Matthias Pliessnig’s seat wave seat

  24. zuy Says:

    see it on … Dezeen
    http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/24/waive-by-matthias-pliessnig/

  25. zuy Says:

    differents versions of Jake phills’s love seat (pop zen design )compared also to Karim one in french blog
    http://www.paperblog.fr/619710/loveseat-par-jake-phipps

  26. JUST COOL Design Blog Says:

    ouch from the poor tree - and it doesnt look very comfortable -

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