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Free flowing Bob
Shape Bob anyway you want. Let the totally adaptable sofa snake around
pillars, flow along walls, and undulate around meeting areas. Bob will
obediently adhere to any space, or will endow it with a forceful and at the
same time immensely comfortable structure. Thanks to Thomas Bernstrand and
Stefan Borselius’ meticulously designed modular solution, Bob can be built
straight, in hairpin turns, as a boomerang, or whatever shape one might fancy.
Bob offers an architectonic freedom of free flows, and without any ”back”
side, Bob will face totally clothed in all directions opening up for even more
possibilities when handling ever-changing interior architecture.
The straightforward construction requires a minimum of maintenance: a frame
in FSC-certified plywood with a sturdy yet soft mould of foam, and a broad
selection of fabrics and colours. At its launch in 2017 Bob was hailed as Best
Product - Editor’s Choice both at Stockholm Furniture Fair and ICFF in New
York, and was then crowned with the German Design Award 2018. Bob has
now become even more flexible with two new elements which allows for even
more sensuous shapes as well as freestanding seating islands. New add-on
steel tables, Cut, can be affixed between the modular elements, or chose the
freestanding Jack table, which can serve as a hub connected to the electric
outlets on Bob. With an optional base in black stained oak, Bob can now
be had as a slightly raised version for public spaces.
”We have made Bob even more practical,” says Stefan Borselius. ”The new
elements allow for gentler curves and freestanding seating islands.”
”The new 11.5 degree elements mean seats can face in every direction;”
claims Thomas Bernstrand, ”you have even greater flexibility in creating
shapes, and you can build little stools as well.”
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