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About this product
Architonic ID: 1018775
Year of Launch: 2005
The Aster X armchair, designed by Jean-Marie Massaud, is an ironic and sophisticated take on the classic director’s chair. A simple, linear, X-shaped base supports the elegant and minimalist seat. The Aster X collection is completed by a pouf and a table, both of which with X-shaped base. Finally, there is also a variant of the chair in which the feet are the natural extension of the two armrests. While maintaining the characteristic geometrical linearity of the other elements, it does not have an X-shaped supporting structure. The Aster X armchair has steel armrests with Ruthenium finish, the upper part of which are covered in Pelle Frau® leather. The seat frame is made from solid beech. The spring system of the chair and the upper part of the backrest consists of elastic belts, while the padding is in polyurethane foam and polyester wadding. The finish is embellished with contrast stitching along the edges and on the external surfaces.
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Usage
Contract, Hospitality, Office
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Designers
Studio Massaud
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.