Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed the Coppia Chair for Italian manufacturer Mattiazzi. By using sophisticated CNC set of tools and at the same time a greatly refined manual know-how, Mattiazzi has a hybrid way to consider furniture production.  As designers, we feel involved in supporting such valiant microstructures that are always on the edge as they try to adjust to a constantly changing market. The Coppia chair had to be the illustration of what Mattiazzi is in its roots. We designed an object in plain wood but not in regular plain wood, the quality of the wood literally makes the object, like the best piece of meat would make the refinement of a dish. Our intention was to let the sensuality of the wood material – from oak to maple to ash – express itself. The Coppia chair invites to be touched, even caressed as it is extremely sculpted and polished thanks to the use of highly sophisticated digital control equipment. The high-tech assembling system of geometrical wood panels allows a quite singular strength while preserving a design balance of the object. The Coppia collection will include a chair, an armchair, a children chair as well as high and low stools.

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