Iron Furniture Design · 2016
Madison Lounge Bench
by Gerardo Ríos
- A' Design Award 2016 Iron Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2016
- CLIENT: G. Rios Furniture & Design
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About Madison Lounge Bench
Madison is a lounge bench designed to seat up to three adults. The frame is made of solid German beech wood with stainless steel cylindrical supports, and the seat is upholstered with high density foam. Mortise and tenon joints provide strength, while the angled legs and the slim seat create a light appearance. Testing confirmed that the bench holds up to 300 kilograms in daily use. The bench measures 1300 mm in width, 450 mm in depth and 370 mm in height. The form recalls car design of the late 1950s and suits contemporary interiors.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This comfortable bench has a good size to sit up to 3 persons, and at the same time it has a light and beautiful design.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1300mm W x 450mm D x 370mm H
- Tags
- Modernism, spatial idealism, lounge bench, decorative, furniture
- Production Technology
- Built in solid German Beech wood, with stainless steel cylindrical supports and upholstered with high density foam. The joint system is mortise and tenon, using Italian high end machinery.
- Design Challenge
- To achieve a visual lightness on the structure, without losing resistance.
- Project Duration
- This project took 10 weeks from the first sketches to the final prototype for mass production, made in the laboratory and prototype design in Mérida, Yucatán, México.
- Operation Flow
- These lightweight forms provide sufficient strength and size to accommodate up to three adults, sitting without a problem and at the same time it is easy to carry and move.
- Research
- The design of the joinery and the angles of the structure were studied and tested carefully so that this piece could withstand daily use and up to 300 kg of weight without breaking. 4 prototypes were built.
- Inspiration
- Part of the Cosmic collection inspired on the cars around 1959. The angle of the legs resembles a rising rocket, and the upholstered surface seems to float upon four metal cylinders that supports it, providing the illusion of an airplane wing. The collection expresses modernism and the spatial idealism present in the early 60's, with a modern and renovated twist that provides a contrast to the upholstery which makes it suitable in almost any contemporary style.
- Image Credits
- Ricardo López
Colors of Madison Lounge Bench
Design Interview about Madison Lounge Bench
Inspired in the shapes and mood of the 50´s, this piece of the collection cosmic, emulates the incredible optimistic and progressive mind of the time of astronaut era.
Shapes follow the lines of cars and spaceships of that time.
Shapes follow the lines of cars and spaceships of that time.
This is part of a collection that should fit into the Scandinavian style spaces, but with a large twist of retrospective shape and style, thinking to inspire optimistic and progressive mentality as a way to escape from the daily routine.
To build a signature brand of design at the highest standard for the world. Bringing furniture and other artifacts from the art (admiration and contemplation) to the interactive and enjoyable daily life of people that wants in their every day objects of interaction, a source of inspiration.
It begun as a conceptual inspiration in 2015, and from there it was developed several pieces among this one to bring this ideas to this collection.
As the majority of my designs, this is a design brought to light from a spark of inspiration as a way to communicate myself and share my ideas to create certain conscience mood.
For the moment, all my design are produced by my furniture factory at Merida Yucatan. I’m am searching for partners to develop a commercial set of luxury stores for this signature brand and share the product and concepts to make it a team success around the world.
It is the necessity of communicate my ideas, the passion of create beauty and functionality to inspire people and take them to a more spicy and flavored interaction with their furniture, in this case a bed food bench.
It never surge from an influence of any kind from other furniture, jet, it is a fact that I’m a passionate of design and I see very frecuently the best design in the worlsd, one, because I enjoy the great designs with enthusiasm, two, because I live in a dynamic world influenced by concepts and fashions that put some floor to all of us, so we can have a certain starting point to build from ot to diverge from it on purpose
The cosmic name comes from a collection inspired in the spacial facade of the 50s and early 60s, and try to describe the optimistic feeling of immense progress that they live in those years, almost everyone watching comics with space images and spaceships everywhere. This shapes are displayed in this design