Milan 2011: Milan-based designer Emanuele Magini showed this sofa wrapped in a fabric wall for Italian brand Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.
The piece, called Sosia, comprises two seats that can be pushed together to form a day bed, separated into two arm chairs or wrapped in the extended cover to create a private space within a larger room.
The wall can be folded down around the seat backs or zipped up completely.
Photographs are by Ezio Prandini.
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The following is from Campeggi:
Sosia by Emanuele Magini.
Two armchairs, one sofa, a sheltered bed but also a proto-living room.
Sosia is all those things and even more.
A mutant object, dynamic and snug, ready to fit with different everyday life situations.
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I can't imagine how this is at all useful or what context the designer imagines this in ?
This is what I've seen most children do with furniture.
This design accommodates their impulses to be liberated while the adults' need to actually sit in their furniture is also accommodated instead of inconvenienced.
It's almost the perfect politics: It virtually pleases all of the people all of the time. Many young parents defer buying their preferred furniture until their children finally grow out of their "cubby" phase.
I didn't notice 'kids' being mentioned in the text as the target so maybe this altered my perception.
I still ask myself, Isn't this too prescriptive as to how kids should behave ?, surely kids can do this with two chairs and a sheet if needs be ? Their imagination is more powerful than this.
Also what use is this sofa outside of the 'playtime' context if two people are unable to sit side by side ?
This is a nice development from earlier work.
when you go around with a CAmper, than you extend your caper with a tent and you have a place to sit repaired from the air and pretty compfortable… it looks nice to me
yeah much better than earlier work, the ideas seem to have together to make something really effective.
@kirby: did you never push sofas together as a kid to make a fort with blanket on top? it's about comfort, defensive space and playing
this sofa is marketed like a magical convertible miracle that can have nine different positions, where as in fact it has all the functions of two chairs, without the luxury of actually separating them when you need them in two places at once