The backrest is flexible and, with its structural elements hidden under the cover, makes for extraordinarily great sitting comfort. The Softshell Chair is just as suitable for conference and visitor areas, temporary workstations and home offices as it is for the dining table – either at home or in a restaurant.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Breton-born brothers, are the stars of European design and the most promising industrial designers to have emerged from France since Philippe Starck in the 1980s.
A combination of romanticism and functionality runs throughout both brothers’ work. Like all truly talented designers, the Bouroullecs have defined a distinctive visual style, which Jasper Morrison (one of the designers they most admire) described as “thoughtful and disciplined, with a real spirit and poetry”.