Circle Back: Seating Trend

Circle Back: Seating Trend

Seating was decidedly geometric at this year’s furniture fairs with clean graphic lines and perfect circles taking center stage on chairs and upholstery. croppedimage727525-Altar-Chair-orange-backrest-white-background-01

PLaying on balance and simplicity, Lee Broom’s 2015 collection included a variety of pieces with perfectly circular seats and backrests including the Loop dining chair (top) and the Altar dining chair (above).

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Perched on a welded, tubular steel frame, two circular padded cushions serve as the seat and backrest of David Adjaye‘s new Double Zero chair for Moroso. A bar stool and a small two-seater sofa version are also available.

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Sitting on three legs, the graphic Halo chair by Michael Sodeau features tapered supports that connect its huge circular back to its rear legs while a thin, wing-shaped seat gives the design a visual lightness.  The Halo chair is the first piece of furniture to be produced entirely from carbon fiber composite, Hypetex.

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Part of the kc collection by German design studio out for space, the artful kc sofa is made from a new specially developed strengthened rattan material called karuun. The geometric seat cushions are upholstered in linen while the frame comes in several colours.

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Of course, back in 1956 George Nelson’s Marshmallow sofa for Herman Miller was way ahead of the curve with its head-turning upholstery made up of 18 10-inch "marshmallow" cushions.

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