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Colonel launches collection based on nomadic furniture at Maison&Objet

Maison&Object 2014: French design duo Colonel has launched its third furniture collection, featuring items based on camping equipment (+ slideshow).

Third furniture collection by Colonel

Designers Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet of Colonel have released a series of new products and updated items in their previous collection, released at the same exhibition last year.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

"[We] drew this new collection in the same spirit as the previous one, which makes the brand signature - light wood, patterns and fresh colours reminding travel and holidays throughout the year," said the designers.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

The two sliding doors of a small beech wood sideboard are cut with perpendicular slots, which create a grid pattern when they overlap.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

Designed to look like a shepherd's stool, the three-legged Bob wooden coffee table with a curved lip comes in beech or light grey and at two heights.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

The Swarm lamps comprise a metal frame covered with a layer of coloured fabric behind a honeycomb mesh, pulled in at the top and bottom with drawstrings. The lamps sit on three spindly legs, either long or short, and also come as a pendant version.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

A piece of wood veneer curved into a cylinder is hand painted with watercolours and mounted on a metal frame to form another lamp called Dowood.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

The collection also includes a set of turned wood containers with patterned fabric rims and mirrors with curved ladder-like metal frames.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

Updated items include the Caracas chair - a contemporary version of a 1960s camping chair - that has been revamped with new graphics for the seat material.

Third furniture collection by Colonel

Also new fabrics are available for the tiltable faceted shade of the Faces floor lamp, which has a branch halfway up its stem for hanging coils of the colourful cord.

The full collection is on display at Maison&Objet, taking place outside Paris until tomorrow.