Biophilia

Polypropylene garden sofa. A new furniture collection by Ross Lovegrove for VONDOM. BIOPHILIA Collection explores the a new design language that forms a dialogue between time, form and space combining the pioneering organic design of Sagrada Famila by Antonio Gaudi, VONDOM expertise in advanced roto-moulded technology and my studios ongoing research into the transference of digital process into contemporary design. This enrichment process places its origin at a time when discovery of nature, its wonder and the resulting diversity of forms beginning with Art Nouveaux, an enduringly beautiful and sensual movement in art that brought the organic World brought inanimate objects to life through the fluid organic minds of designers, artists, photographers and architects alike. Taken out of craft and into the 21st century progressive domain of polymerization and industry BIOPHILIA is a collection, acknowledges this lineage but pushes the boundaries between material structure and form into a new modern territory as yet unseen, parametrically conceived and diametrically opposed to modernism in its expression.