stacking 'Go Chair' of 2001 for Bernhardt Design, the
world's first magnesium-framed chair. Lovegrove calls
the chair an essay in "organic essentialism," a hi-tech
crossover from purely industrial use of magnesium to
the stylish world of furniture design. The Welsh-born
Lovegrove, like his Italian confreres, somehow glances
backward to design antecedents from his own country:
the swooping lines of the 'Go Chair' remind me of Gerald
Summers' equally curvaceous 1933 chair made from a
single sheet of birch plywood.
With the invention of super-light materials comes a
certain trend towards immateriality, a deconstruction
of things, like walls, traditionally thought to be solid. In
2005, the ICFF showed a full repertoire of designs by
Molo, a design studio "dedicated to an exploration of
sensory experience in space making, combined with
experiments in manufacturing, materials and structure."
ICFF 2005, Molo's soft seating lounger
