Home away from home: Minotti

Created with Minotti’s characteristic ‘double-soul’, all products from the Italian brand are designed and produced for both residential and hospitality projects, and one of their most favoured products in both sectors is the Tape seating range.

As a signature part of Minotti’s 2018 Collection, the Tape range of sofas, armchairs and footstool - designed by Oki Sato of design studio Nendo - makes a highlight of its creator’s sense of design humour. With narrow, delicate feet set entirely outside the body - and only attached via an elegant circumference of bronzed ribbon - Sato has birthed a warm, slightly eccentric yet lovable addition for comfortable spaces.

When selected along with Minotti’s Alexander sectional seating system as part of the Mediterranean style of this villa in Cap Adriano, Mallorca, the armless Tape helps to keep the room light and spacious without cluttering its breathtaking sea view. While the alternative armed version of the chair, with extended and dipped curved shell, can have the opposite effect, enclosing a space and enveloping the sitter in a warm and cosy environment, seemingly all of their own.

As with all Minotti products, however, Tape hasn’t been created with just residential use in mind. When thought of, instead, as a piece for the hospitality sector its extended armchair version continues to make sense, albeit in an entirely different way. The seating system manages to combine comfort with intelligent design and compact proportions for shared spaces. When generously applied to a recent design project at the Kashiyama Daikanyama commercial complex in Japan, for example, Tape’s simple design elements allow multiple versions of the seating to retain an unmistakable character, but the seating remains elegant and comfortable throughout.

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