Milan 2011: French designer Matali Crasset launched this convertible sofa for Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month.
The sofa, called Dynamic Life, is controlled by a touch pad and can be configured in three ways.
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Photographs are by Ezio Prandini.
The following is from the designer:
Dynamic Life Matali Crasset 2011
Sofa gradually turned bourgeois, a fossilized object; a sort of cetacean who got stuck on the domestic universe and takes a lot of space giving back a little service. Hence the idea to ask him more generosity and identification with modern life.
When touch pad became part of everyday life, an object conceived not for a passive comfort but for an active one. A dynamism which distances itself from complicated mechanisms; an ease of handling which proposes three different moments in the same place.
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A design with nice flexibilty just a shame it looks like a cheese hotdog.
"The sofa, called Dynamic Life, is controlled by a touch pad"
Why? And where is this touchpad?
Unless I'm fairly disabled I think I can lift cushions myself.