


Help me find it
Architonic ID: 1372424
Year of Launch: 2016
Steeve’s modular seating system is reimagined once again for 2016. Refined and substantial, Steeve is now available with a new aluminum base in either black or white, elevating the architectural and volumetric form off the ground and reinforcing its minimal, modernist expression. Ideally suited for the well-appointed home or the sophisticated work environment, Steeve is available in a wide range of fabrics, leathers and finishes to complement its new aluminum base system.
Available in a bench, armchair and sofa, Steeve can be created in countless configurations to enhance any interior space.
Concept
Steeve is a modern, modular system imagined for the refined home or work environment. Customizable in a wide range of fabrics, leathers and finishes, Steeve’s three versatile components –– bench, armchair and sofa and relative modules –– can be arranged to accommodate any interior space allowing for countless configurations. Steeve’s silhouette is solid and architectural while at the same time appearing slender, light and volumetric.
Ideal for contract applications and residential spaces, the refined Steeve collection of sofas and ottomans includes free-standing versions with one, two, three seats and modular modules.
The modularity of the collection is expressed through the variety of linear and corner compositions that can be created. The system includes central, end and corner modules to suit a wide range of requirements.
Extremely versatile, Steeve features an external structure available in exposed wood, or fully upholstered in fabric, leather or coated fabric. The upholstery of the internal structure and the soft seat and backrest cushions can be configured in a coordinated or two-tone version.
The collection is completed by accessory cushions, available in two different sizes.
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.