Contemporary chair ELLE

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Elle is a sophisticated beauty. This dining room furniture collection brings out the finest features of MS&WOOD’s engineering and manufacturing and takes our environmental awareness to the next level. Elle’s sustainability lies in her balance of the aesthetic and the utilitarian. She features curved volumes yet her silhouettes remain simple. Elle takes the spotlight when being admired and reveals the interplay between her slopes and edges when seen from different viewpoints. However, Elle can remain in the background or even become a mere stage on which life plays out. Elle carries her role well in very different interiors or in one space as it changes over the years. Her pieces contain lasting formal and functional values that transcend time so as to be passed on and used by several generations. All the pieces were developed through sculpting many scale and life-sized models in search of golden section proportions and perfect detailing. Computer 3D modeling was used only as a means of capturing the handmade forms: "I closed my eyes and imagined a chair that personified beauty. I began to sketch, draft and model a chair whose form fully followed function. I moved on by taking away additional material and smoothing out the edges. I slowly arrived at a very slender chair that rationally used wood components. The chair was exceptionally comfortable. Sitting on its wooden seat felt like sitting on a padded one. Elle table followed the same concept adopting a more downplayed aesthetic in order to ensure complementarity with different chairs."