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A meeting and a thought
Wandering slowly down the middle of the aisles at Salone Satelite
in Milan curiously scouting for designers whose thoughts I can relate
to, I have many inspiring conversations with young designers from all
over the world when suddenly I see a small red moulded chair in a
9 square meter booth. I wait to have a chat with the designer. I say
“Hello, I think I can help you solve the problem that I think you were
trying to solve.” The designer Luka Stepan doesn’t seem impressed
with my offer, and wonders how? But I don’t want to tell him that, so
we decide to talk after the fair. A few months later, our development
begins to solve a new way of press moulding a large sweeping
mould. We invest in the tools convinced that we have found a new
innovative way to press-form laminated veneer into an impossible
shape by cutting away the material that would cause problems in the
process. There was a loud bang inside the factories after each failed
attempt and we finally realized that we weren’t going to succeed.
This time the material won. But the shape of the chair was too good
to leave to its fate. Luka Stepan was given the task of turning the
small wooden chair into a larger, more comfortable chair with an
upholstered seat and back. It’s Lucky when failure can’t stop us.
Lucky generation 2 will be launched in 2024 – watch out!
