WIDN blog

As you settle into the Filo chair which Eoos designed for Bene, you probably wouldn’t imagine that a photograph of a man drawing back a bow, his face etched with determination as he prepares to release his arrow, inspired the shape of the chair’s arm. But it did. According to the designers, ‘it stretches at thinnest point, thereby allowing relaxing micro-movements’. As for the Filo Conference Table, an ‘antler’ made of die-cast aluminum, which branches out to rails on the underside of the continuous table surface, gives maximum stability despite minimum structure and large distances between the central feet. The idea was to create a table which would be as unimposing as possible. The inspiration came from a convivial scene of guests sitting around a simple table at a wedding.

Or how about the Inipi Stone, an organic-looking, pebble-shaped device which allows the user to control temperature, humidity, color of light and music in the bathroom, designed for Duravit. This time the inspiration was a ritual of the Native American Lakota people, whereby stones are heated in a fire and then carried to a shrouded tent using deer antlers. Great ideas, it seems, are often found in the strangest places.