Play With Dedon

17 May 2011,
The name Dedon is no alien to all those who appreciate the luxuriously aesthetic yet highly practical things in life. In tow with renowned brands such as starck and quitllet, the three have designed a specially customized collection of furniture that is indeed suitable for.


Designed by Philippe Starck for DEDON, the leading producer of hand-woven outdoor furniture, the PLAY chair-armchair is the fruit of two opposing yet interchanging design concepts. It marries the high technology of a moulded polypropylene and fiberglass frame with the unique style of chairsand backrests handcrafted by master artisans.

Based on a concept of interchangeable liaisons of materials, colours, workings, PLAY opens the horizon to a future of specially customized furniture and an array of possible combinations. Pieces that can be redesigned to achieve a personal fit, ordered online, produced upon request, and which assume the client’s direct, emotional and creative inputs to make the design relationship more liberating and fun.

Made in four different versions, the DEDON lamps play with the idea of colour contrasts, such as chalk and carbon, chalk and terracotta, terracotta and stone, orange and bronze, and are inspired by the free-standing and the suspension models of the two most celebrated outdoor light sources produced by Flos. And which add the essential final touch to the outdoor décor scenario created with pieces from the new PLAY with DEDON collection.



Elastic and durable, extremely lightweight and stackable, Starck defines the PLAY chair armchair as “an idea that gives plenty of room to human intervention”.
A piece that melds mirror-finish aluminium with solid teak or polypropylene with the unalterable hand-woven synthetic fiber that has made DEDON famous the world over and which brings together a range of specific skills and exclusive solutions. PLAY will be offered in several colour ways, combinations and mélanges of chalk and carbon, stone and terracotta, and bronze.

With or without armrests, PLAY has inspired also PLAY with DEDON, a collaboration that encompasses the BISTRO table, with its glazed porcelain ceramic tabletop that stands on a central pedestal made of moulded polypropylene, and DINING, a four-legged table in mirror-finish aluminium and profiled in aluminium, and which, thanks to the use of an inert compound of powdered bamboo and plastic, looks just like real wood.

Alex Wiederin (Buero New York) took the playful spirit of Philippe Starck’s collection and smoothly applied it to a unique packaging concept picking up on the idea of L’Effet Domino. This way DEDON pushed an ordinary packaging solution to another level where the product, the presentation and a box become an extraordinary yet simple symbiosis that simply makes you want to play.

INFO
DEDON
Dedon Asia Pacific Limited
Unit 3203-07, 32/F,
248 Queen’s Road East,
Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
TEL
+852 / 2529 7233
FAX
+852 / 2529 7933
EMAIL
office@dedon.hk
WEBSITE
www.dedon.hk