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In Production Sweet Spot
Metropolis Magazine
|September2018
Francesco Meda’s Woody Chair for Molteni&C is an exercise in simplicity that doesn’t lose sight of comfort.
With modern side chairs from the likes of Jean Prouvé, Alvar Aalto, and Hans Wegner, you might think the world doesn’t need another. It was this kind of jaded mind-set that Molteni&C sought to challenge when it asked Francesco Meda to design a chair. It seems the up-and-coming Italian designer was the right choice: His chair, Woody, echoes iconic forms but with the kind of thoughtful construction and sensitivity to comfort that puts it in a class of its own.
This story is from the September2018 edition of Metropolis Magazine.
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