Milan 08: Loveseat by London-based designer Jake Phipps has been put into production by Italian manufacturers RIVA1920.
The double seat is made from solid cedar and can be used indoors or outside.
The product was launched at the furniture fair in Milan last month.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
May 28th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
wow cool. how weird.. sitting on a carved out cut-out piece of a 40 year old tree!
May 28th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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…
May 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
This one is my favourate.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
oh my god. imagine how old that tree is…
at least 20 years.
sad.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
That baulk belongs in the home of some rude rustic, not the elegant perfection of that domicile. . Begone!
May 29th, 2008 at 12:21 am
poor tree, but guess it would be d’ ideal material for such form…
May 29th, 2008 at 2:15 am
SAD…
May 29th, 2008 at 5:37 am
a treeman was murdered
May 29th, 2008 at 8:11 am
So you can’t make furniture out of wood anymore??
May 29th, 2008 at 11:19 am
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!?
May 29th, 2008 at 11:25 am
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!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
i think ‘chatseat’ or ‘idliketodiscussthisfacetofaceseat’ would be more appropriate - aint gonna be no love-makin’ across that central spline/edge
May 29th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
i can’t stand seeing a cedar like this.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
i love to see the patterns of the grain of wood, but i think its too much a waste of wood..
May 30th, 2008 at 1:44 am
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.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
“i can’t stand seeing a cedar like this.” Lol
June 1st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
sympa comme tout
June 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Love seats as Harim Rashid pink’s seats for a french champagne company
Nice wood work but is it green?
June 1st, 2008 at 4:50 pm
i love the movie by Veuve Clicquot/ LVMH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJJUJwL1wjk
June 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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
June 1st, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 am
i love Matthias Pliessnig’s seat wave seat
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
see it on … Dezeen
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/24/waive-by-matthias-pliessnig/
June 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
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
June 13th, 2008 at 2:01 am
ouch from the poor tree - and it doesnt look very comfortable -