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Know When to Fold 'Em

The Bocci booth at ICFF caught my eye for the company’s collection of chic furnishings. The Vancouver-based design house introduced Omer Arbel’s 25 Bench with its sexy pleats and sleek profile. The designer, also from Vancouver, is known for his explorations of folding and pleating. He decided to forgo foam in this bench in favor of voluptuous layers of folded and pleated fabric, which, over time, shift to conform to the shapes of the bodies resting on 25’s angular seat.

Filed under // 25 Bench Bocci DesignCommotion Furniture Omer Arbel

Posted July 24, 2009

Saxon Henry

Saxon Henry has been a journalist for fifteen years, and has written for an array of publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Robb Report. In her niche as a design/architecture journalist, she is a former contributing editor to Interiors Magazine and MIAMI Magazine, and a former regular contributor to Luxe, Modernism and Manhattan. As a design-related travel writer, she is a former regular contributor to Delta Sky, Latitudes, Cayman Airways and Aishti. Henry’s book Four Florida Moderns was published by W.W. Norton & Company in early 2010. She publishes a number of blogs, including Roaming By Design and The Road To Promise, and her new Social Media consultancy firm, Adroyt, founded with Richard Holschuh, is now in full swing. After years of writing for a variety of publications, Henry considers capturing a client's most authentic and marketable voice a skill she has honed with great effort, making the process of identifying that voice seem effortless, though nothing could be further from the truth!

Know When to Fold 'Em

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