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Another Happy Furniture Installation
Posted on August 7th, 2009 1 comment
"Onda" Chair in "Dot In The Box" by Robert Allen Textiles
The recent installation of our “Onda” Chair in C.O.M. shows the versatility of the design. Here, Robert Allen’s “Dot in the Box” fabric is used to totally transform the “Onda” for our customer.
Available for purchase here
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NELSON BRIDGE’S LIST OF TOP TEN MODERN CHAIRS - #07 - The Bella Figura Chair
Posted on April 27th, 2009 No commentsThe Bella Figura Chair, #7 in our list of Most Favorite Modern Chairs
The Bella Figura Chair is particularly near and dear to our hearts at Nelson Bridge since it is one of our own. In 1991, our own Jonathan Nelson designed the Bella Figura for the Ultrasuede Ad Campaign “A Fabrication of your Imagination” just after his returning from study at Domus Academy in Milan.
Since then, this chair has become a staple in the original furniture offerings of Nelson Bridge.
Coming out of Nelson’s exposure to the “Memphis Movement” at Domus, the Bella Figura is recognizably Modern, but with a whimsical twist. The body of the chair is pure in form with a curvaceous and enveloping shape. The back legs splay out unlike the front legs, giving it the hoof-like stance of an animal.
“Bella Figura” is the Italian expression for “Keeping the good Face” and in that way the front face of the chair is deceptively simple. To see the Bella Figura from the front in a flat on view, is to see a million look-a-like chairs that have a similar front-on shape to the arm (Perhaps due in no small part to the widespread circulation of the Ultrasuede ad Campaign). And yet, as you walk around the Bella Figura, you find that it is far more complex in shape, it commands a dominant presence in the room and makes it one of our top 10 Favorites.
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