


Architonic ID: 1074324
Year of Launch: 2009
Two-seat sofa with MDF frame and aluminium feet, upholstered in leather, faux leather, fabric or customer’s fabric.
148 x 72 x H 69 cm
Concept
Sean is a collection of sofas and a bench that combines generous, geometric volumes with slender, cast metal legs. With its compact size and comfortable cushions, Sean fits effortlessly in the home or common area.
Soft and welcoming, the Sean collection adapts naturally to various types of environments, from contract to residential: lounges, waiting rooms and elegant living areas. Available in armchair and two or three-seater sofa versions, it is characterised by its aluminium four-leg frame and soft cushions covered in fabric, leather or coated fabric.
This product belongs to collection:
Aluminium, Base metal, Metal

France
Since the beginning of his career (a 1990 graduate of Paris’ ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris Design Institute), Jean-Marie Massaud has been working on an extensive range of works, stretching from architecture to objects, from one-off project to serial ones, from macro environment down to micro contexts. Major brands such as Axor, Cassina, Christofle, Poliform, Toyota have solicited his ability to mix comfort and elegance, zeitgeist and heritage, generosity and distinction. Beyond these elegant designs, his quest for lightness – in matters of essence – synthesize three broader stakes: individual and collective fulfillment, economic and industrial efficiency, and environmental concerns. “I’m trying to find an honest, generous path with the idea that, somewhere between the hard economic data, there are users. People.” His creations, whether speculative or pragmatic, explore this imperative paradigm: reconciling pleasure with responsibility, the individual with the collective. When asked to imagine a new stadium for the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, he comes back with a never seen before cloud and volcano-shaped building, integrated in a vast urban-development program that re-unite leisure and culture, nature and urbanization, sport aficionados and local citizens. Instead of implanting a stadium, he proposed an environment. And the initial vision has proven a realistic approach: the project has come to life in July 2011. More recently, his concept car developed in partnership with Toyota, has the same objective. MEWE is a synthesis of economical and ecological concepts, integrating issues specific to each stakeholder: the user, industry, and the environment. A pioneering multiple-use platform that is a car for the people, with a body in expanded polypropylene foam: a major innovation. “When I’m working on a project, there’s always an attempt to renew the subject I’m involved in”. Another distinctive aspect of his approach.