German clothier Jil Sander has unveiled a collaboration with furnishings model Thonet, within the type of a reinterpretation of an iconic Marcel Breuer design.
Marking the German designer’s first foray into furnishings, the Thonet collaboration takes Nineteen Twenties designs and sees Sander apply her personal stamp leading to two strains: Severe and Nordic – each of which have been launched throughout this yr’s Milan Design Week.
For Severe, Sander targeted in on the S 64 chair. Created by Breuer in 1929-1930, the chair turned an emblem of Bauhaus design, with its cantilever tubular metal body and canework seat and backrest. Sander and the Thonet design group labored to create a brand new shiny element throughout the body, mixed with leather-based upholstery for the seats and backrests in 4 totally different shades. As well as, there’s a model that also options the traditional canework, however is available in a “Darkish Melange” hue.
Hartmut Nägele
Hartmut Nägele
Hartmut Nägele
“My objective was to take the S 64 as Breuer meant it to be and produce it into the right here and now,” Sander says. “The chair’s design and elementary construction have stood the take a look at of time and deserve modern recognition. I wished the chair’s iconic standing to be obvious at first look and its particulars to slowly reveal themselves,”
With Nordic, Sander took a hotter strategy, and opted for shades and supplies that really feel extra remiscient of design from that area. Matte-finised silver nickel is mixed with white pigmented oak and pure or white-toned leather-based. Each the Severe and Nordic strains incorporate a set of nesting tables, which function colours and supplies much like that of the seating.
“The gathering merely appears to be like as if we had taken Breuer’s cantilever chair and punctiliously polished it,” Sander provides. Regardless of the brand new particulars, the unique is straight away recognisable.”
The JS. Thonet Signature assortment launched throughout this yr’s Milan Design Week. Head to the Thonet web site to search out out extra.
