Dezeen Showroom: Studio Irvine has created the S 5000 Retreat workplace chair system primarily based on a design by its late founder James Irvine for German furnishings makers Thonet.
The S 5000 Retreat assortment options a mixture of couch and chair items, every with tubular metal legs and excessive backs designed to supply consolation and privateness within the office.
The seating system is a transforming of the S 5000 couch, which Irvine created 15 years in the past primarily based on various Thonet items from the Nineteen Thirties.
Irvine’s spouse, the architect Marialaura Rosiello-Irvine, now runs Studio Irvine and tweaked the design for an workplace setting, including tables, cushions and energy shops.
“Regardless of its austere design, the S 5000 Retreat has been designed to offer a way of privateness and to advertise creativity,” stated Rosiello-Irvine.
“It invitations you to play with its supplies, colors, shapes and dimensions. Even the cushions permit for various shades to be mixed. I prefer to name it ‘moral design’ when corporations and designers deliberately look at the place they’re investing and the way merchandise are created.”
The modules can be found in a single, two or three-seater variations, together with equipment equivalent to a privateness divider display screen.
Product: S 5000 Retreat
Designer: Studio Irvine
Model: Thonet
Contact: susanne.korn@thonet.de
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