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Dynamic Life by Matali Crasset for Campeggi

Dynamic Life by Matali Crasset for Campeggi

Milan 2011: French designer Matali Crasset launched this convertible sofa for Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month.

Dynamic Life by Matali Crasset for Campeggi

The sofa, called Dynamic Life, is controlled by a touch pad and can be configured in three ways.

Dynamic Life by Matali Crasset for Campeggi

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Dynamic Life by Matali Crasset for Campeggi

Photographs are by Ezio Prandini.

The following is from the designer:


Dynamic Life Matali Crasset 2011

Sofa gradually turned bourgeois, a fossilized object; a sort of cetacean who got stuck on the domestic universe and takes a lot of space giving back a little service. Hence the idea to ask him more generosity and identification with modern life.

Dynamic Life by Matali Crasset for Campeggi

When touch pad became part of everyday life, an object conceived not for a passive comfort but for an active one. A dynamism which distances itself from complicated mechanisms; an ease of handling which proposes three different moments in the same place.