Introducing
Kaschkasch
The lounge armchair Kudo is Leolux’s
first collaboration with the Cologne
design duo kaschkasch. Florian Kallus
and Sebastian Schneider founded their
studio in 2011. They designed over a
hundred products for many German
and international clients in furniture,
lighting and much more. Yet Kudo is
an outright first.
First armchair
Visiting the studio in Cologne’s Zollstock district, Florian and
Sebastian tell us that Kudo is also a baptism of fire for them.
“Interestingly enough, this is the first armchair we have
designed. We have made one-seaters as a derivative of a
sofa programme before, but never a lounge armchair like this
one. So Kudo is a design we have always wanted to make.
Really a lounge chair in the classic typology, with a matching
footstool to go with it.”
Attractive but not noisy
Kudo became a real kaschkasch design. “If you look at our
designs, you will see that they are all somehow reduced to the
essence. We are always looking for an attractive form without
being too noisy. That ‘reduced’ design gives room for intuitive
usability. You always see very clearly in our designs the
essence of the purpose for which they were developed. In this
case, that is ergonomics, and seating comfort. But at the
same time, the design should not become emotionless. We are
always juggling these parameters during the design process.”
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