Numen/For Use and Prostoria Collaborate on Lowlife and Loop Sofas

Numen/For Use has turn into identified for creating interactive public installations utilizing adhesive tape, ropes, and carpet that guests are inspired to climb, clamber, and conceal inside. They loosely resemble furnishings and are designed by Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler, and Nikola Radeljković – who’re additionally furnishings designers behind the Numen/For Use collective.

Not too long ago Numen/For Use confirmed their collaboration with award-winning model Prostoria. They got free reign to design built-in options that blur the road between experimental structure and designer furnishings, the result’s two new programs of modular furnishings – Lowlife and Loop.

“Each initiatives, in a approach, end result from our analysis into the potential of novel interpretations of ideas associated to casual area and unconventional social relations typical of the countercultural actions within the late 1960s,” explains designer Sven Jonke, from the Numen/For Use collective.

Lowlife’s system combines various backrest heights with three completely different seat depths for a totally personalized lounging expertise that options barely rounded edges with futuristic undertones. Loop’s interconnected seats and poufs unfold to disclose angled surfaces excellent for lounging, leisure, and socializing. Prosteria is certainly one of few international furnishings makers entitled to make use of upholstery by Danish model Kvadrat, that means Lowlife and Loop are available textiles by Raf Simons, Creative Director of Jill Sander, Christian Dior, and Calvin Klein.

“Each programs offered in Milan characteristic the at present underrepresented low-sitting. For that reason, they’re pitched below the slogan Lowlife is healthier than highlife. With this launch, we wish to step out of our consolation zone, make one thing much less industrial and attraction to youthful generations,” highlights architect Biljana Angelovski, from Prostoria.