Ermellino

production
1984
manufacturer
Flou
description
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"Sit on an armchair and think of stretching your legs horizontally and you're in the new bed. The headboard is structured into different elements that transform it into the back of a sofa, on which lies a heavy cover in leather or in quilted linen." Vico Magistretti

Ermellino arose from the increasingly manifest need to use a bed not only to sleep in but to read, watch TV, write or work. This is why the headboard was designed as the reclinable back of a sofa and fitted with an armrest that opens and closes according to need. The frame of the bed is in painted steel tubes and supports a reinforced wood base upholstered in a fixed cover and covered with the same fabric as the whole bed. So, even without a mattress, the bed is completely dressed. The feet are in steel tubes with rubber tips. If Nathalie's headboard draws inspiration from the Maralunga, a few years later, Ermellino would also have a transformable headboard and armrest to continue exploring the technical and expressive options of the "new way of sleeping" and relaxing in bed.

technical data

Steel (structure), back and armrests upholstered in padded covering or unpadded leather.

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project profile by Ali Filippini