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Vegetal: By the Bouroullecs for Vitra
April 24, 2009
By Vicky Richardson
Vegetal Chair: the basket-like seat appears to grow from four slender legs
Vitra’s latest chair joins a long-line of attempts by man to marry the natural with the artificial.
Vegetal has been designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, inspired by the growth of plants and produced using an injection moulding technique. This fascination with nature is a thread that runs through all of the Bouroullecs’ work, either manifested in its form, as exemplified by the Algues; a vine-like filigree modular partition system (also by Vitra), or simply in its colours, as in the case of the Papyrus chair for Kartell, which has a distinctive palette. ‘Colour defines the products and distinguishes them. It’s like when you see a Le Corbusier building, it is identifiable,’ says Ronan.
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