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BOB Betong
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About this product
Architonic ID: 1543098
Year of Launch: 2018
The heavy-duty version of Stefan Borselius and Thomas Bernstrand’s meticulously designed modular sofa system will furnish public space all around the city with generous seatings for everyone. Have break, eat your lunch, read a book, wait for a friend. Bob Betong will offer comfortable meeting places in parks, town squares and along sidewalk. Bob Betong can be used to enrich new public spaces or give older ones a new life, while at the same time securing the city from all kind of threats.
Concept
A sofa system providing almost unlimited options, constructed using the smallest possible number of modules. Where ordinary sofas are usually rectangular, square and predictable, Bob offers the architectonic freedom to either challenge or adhere to all types of spaces.
Build it straight. Or with soft curves.
Add a hairpin bend. Let Bob undulate across your space or build strict constructions. Long or short. Just a few or lots of modules. Each sofa module is only 26 centimetre at its widest, and with only 5 different modules, Bob is an easy to understand and extremely flexible sofa system. And which other sofa can grow by 26 cm at a time? Without any “back” side, Bob faces all directions beautifully, providing even more possibilities for interior design architecture.
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Specifications
Base
Closed base
Category
3-seater
Feature
Without armrests
Usage
Outdoor / Garden, Urban space
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Designers
Thomas Bernstrand
Sweden
Profile Thomas Bernstrand, Designer/Architect Konsthögskolan, University of Fine Arts, Sweden 2005-2006 Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden 1994-1999 Denmarks Designskole, Industrial design, Copenhagen, Denmark 1996 Inchbald School of Design, London, England 1988-1989
Stefan Borselius
Sweden
born 1974 in Malmö. Educated at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. He attended Carl Malmstens school and Steneby school, and studied furniture carpentry and design. Stefan Borselius is an ingenious designer with a head bursting with ideas. He can be quiet and thoughtful, but when he speaks out he’s quite the verbal gymnast, an art he balances with being an equally inventive and an aesthetically pleasing designer. Stefan’s choice of career was inspired by his grandfather and great grandfather who were both skilled furniture carpenters. Stefan prefers to call himself a carpenter, and he believes that hands, thoughts and precision are all important tools of his occupation. Right from the function and material of an object through to the final product, Stefan wants to create furniture for our time and our way of living, our here and our now. When he works with a product, Stefan Borselius leaves nothing to chance, but goes methodically and whole- heartedly through every single detail, every function and every characteristic which a material or a technique can offer. He pushes the boundaries of what is possible to produce, and would rather give up and pursue another route than not produce anything at all. He leaves no stone unturned in his quest for a solution. As a result, his products have a strong sense of identity which already answer unasked questions in their strong expressionism.