ALMOST ICONS / 2019
Ruelle comes from the fourth
Infiniti Design Contest, as a review
of the typical chairs outside the
bistros in the French village’s small
streets (so called “Ruelles”), with a
clean design and a large backrest.
Its structure is made of alumi-
num, while the sinuous backrest
is made of oak plywood. Ruelle is
the perfect synthesis between the
lightness of wood and strenght of
metal.
Ruelle chair shows its outdoor
version, with perforated seat with
thin lines cut and a new plastic
backrest. This outdoor version
can come as well into “veranda”
option, with perforated seat ma-
tched with wooden back.
RUELLE
DESIGN:
PHILIPPE TABET
“Design for me is an ensemble of elements.
When I was a kid, I used to draw characters,
objects, shapes, a bit like I do today.
The difference, however, is that when I draw
an object today, I think immediately to its
material, to its production process or to its
function.
In the transition from drawing to
design, I have found fascinating the
materialization of a sketch or of an idea,
the transformation of something flat into
something tridimensional.
For example two simple wood layers
glued together give birth to an object
in volume: this is also the starting point
of the Ruelle chair.”
THE PERFECT
BALANCED MIX
BETWEEN TRADITION
AND MODERNITY
MY CHALLENGE IN THIS
CASE HAS BEEN TO MAKE
THE UNION OF THESE
TWO MATERIALS AS MUCH
HARMONIOUS AS POSSIBLE,
AS THE UNION BETWEEN
TECHNIQUE AND DRAWING.
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