Eu/phoria, créée par Paola Navone, est une chaise monocoque, née de l'idée d'utiliser le Woodstock®, un matériau «pauvre», habituellement employé dans l'industrie automobile, composé pour moitié de déchets d'usinage du bois et de polypropylène. Produit sous forme de plaques thermoformables présentant d'excellentes qualités en matière d'élasticité et de résistance, Eu/phoria peut, lors du moulage, être combiné avec n'importe quel type de tissu (brevet Eumenes) afin d'obtenir une personnalisation complète de ce petit fauteuil.
Born in Turin and Milanese by adoption Paola Navone is an architect, designer, art director and interior designer. She also enjoys supervising exhibitions and events. A 1973 graduate of Turin Polytechnic, Paola Navone joined the prestigious Italian group Alchimia in 1979, where she worked with Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi. Between 1985 and 1988, Paola Navone worked as a consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, which operated in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Authentic, dreamy and eclectic, Paola Navone combines the colours of the traditional East she loves, with the tastes and forms of a West rich in tradition, open, and on the move. In 1983, Paola Navone received the famous Osaka International Design Award. Today, Paola Navone is artistic director of two companies, Abet Laminati and Gervasoni, and continues to create products for publishers such as Driade, Molteni, or the outdoor furniture brand Emu, for whom she creates the Ivy collection, among other things. Paola Navone has notably directed the creation of Suspension Brass for Gervasoni.
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EUMENES
Eumenes is a designer furniture brand founded in 2011. Its collections soon met with success, thanks to product families designed by two of the greatest designers of our time: Paola Navone and Jean-Marie Massaud. The products range from sofas to dining tables and small lounge chairs suitable for both indoor and garden use. With its imaginative designers and research and development efforts, Eumenes seeks, above all, to promote creativity, offering a limited range of versatile products that are both functional and aesthetic.