Polish design representatives in EU
Some time ago I wrote few articles about Polish Presidency of the EU Council. It was about the official souvenirs and about two elements of the image furniture collection. As you may remember these furniture fill the Presidency’s most important premises – conference rooms, offices, and places of work, leisure and informal meetings. The collection contains few kind of seats, comfortable sofas, tables and lamps. I have already presented T40 table and Genotyp lamps by Studio Rygalik.
Today I would like to tell you something about the other elements of the collection as the expiry date of our Presidency is coming.
Apart for the lamps and T40 tables, Studio Rygalik provides also light, elegant and compact armchairs and sofas Czesław. The construction is upholstered in wool emphasizing its characteristic form. Small but stable base helps the lightness of the form and the armrests integrated with the back surround the user with embracing feeling of comfort.
Another kind of seats are supplied by Malafor. Trunk is made of a piece of oak wood cut crosswise and dressed in stainless steel - a shiny, mirror-like. Although the trunk has a handle, so it can be easily removed, I hope delegates and visitors don't take them out.
Next element of the collection is Split coat-hanger by Paweł Jasiewicz. The designer inspired by joint solutions used in furniture manufacturing and architecture in Poland and Norway created a hanger based on incisioned and unbent square timber. As he said: “Split is a result of the craftsmanship studies and an attempt of understanding the material capability.”
And the last but not least, SIMPLIC conference table by Piotr Kuchciński. It is a simple in form and construction system of conference tables, which can be easily configured and combined according to the functional needs of any particular space.
As you can see, the whole collection is coherent, although completed from the elements designed by different people, and can be described with two words: lightness and simplicity. Tradition and contemporary design either, but this is more then two words :-)
“These projects fit perfectly into the concept of furnishing the Presidency’s interiors, complementing it from the aesthetic and functional point of view, and show the variety of contemporary Polish design. The Polish-manufactured furniture for the Presidency is of advanced quality, modern, fresh and able to surprise anyone not familiar with Polish design.” said Tomek Rygalik, who was responsible for completing this furniture system. And it is hard to disagree.
Armchairs and sofa Czesław
Trunk in autumn
Trunk likes company
Split coat-hanger
Split in zoom
SIMPLIC conference tables system
Genotyp lamps, Czesław armchairs, T40 tables and Trunks
Czesławs, T40s, Genotyps and Split
by Studio Rygalik (excluding the plant)
Photo credits to: Ernest Wińczyk, Bartosz Górka
