130 YEARS OF CRAFTSMANSHIP
Birth of a bed: a dialogue between design and expert craftsmanship
To celebrate our Maison’s 130th anniversary, our upholsterers and decorators have created a bed that embodies the artisanal excellence that has defined us since 1895.
I n the heart of our workshops, each bed comes to life in the hands of our craftsmen, enjoying the creative freedom that allows us to imagine unique pieces tailored to reflect each person’s style and way of life. For this anniversary bed, the choice naturally fell on one of our best-sellers: the Square model. Its headboard, made up of 15 padded squares, provides the perfect canvas to showcase exceptional fabrics. For this creation, we selected a textile adorned with the Dot pattern, originally imagined by Ray Eames. A meeting of two legacies — modernist design and Swiss craftsmanship. This bed reads like a dynamic musical score, where the movement and rhythm of the motif are highlighted by the repetitive geometry of the Square composition. A playful yet modern touch for a celebratory bed.
A symphony around a dot
The American designer duo Ray and Charles Eames are known for the 1956 Lounge Chair and the moulded fibreglass shell chair of the 1950s — creations that have become timeless icons. In 1947, Ray Eames was 35. Whilst her husband Charles devoted himself mainly to the design of structures and materials for furniture, Ray devoted a large part of her energies to designing the textiles used to clad their creations. Drawing inspiration from both organic and mathematical shapes, the DOT pattern reads like a musical score. It was not produced during Charles’ and Ray’s lifetimes. It was Lucia Eames (Charles Eames’ daughter from a previous relationship) and Mary Murphy of American textile manufacturer Maharam who resurrected the motif from Ray’s original drawings, putting it on fabrics from 1999 onwards.
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