NEW LIGHTING COLLECTION AT GRAYE

Scheduled to be here in a few weeks, Graye is pleased to present

Prandina lighting from Italy. With a general focus on modern blown glass

with a simple elegant feel, generous proportions and weighty

designs all speaking to the quality of the hand production.

Recently they have added a few outdoor lights that are particularly

impressive, namely the equilibre tall floor lamp and room light/seat seen below.

Prandina designs are rarely complicated, but simply rely on time tested modern

form with at times a flourish of color or irregular form. All in all the fine

quality of the line is what impressed us here at Graye and hope you

enjoy this selection.

Gong pendant in blown glass

Tiara pendant in layered blown glass



 

ABC floor lamp in blown glass with hand etched pattern



Bloom pendant in copper and black blown glass



Bloom pendant in white blown glass



Platone sconce

Room floor lamp



Labelle pendant in colored thermoformed PMMA



http://www.prandina.it/

http://www.graye-la.com/





Porro has finalized the wood selection available on the new

version of BALANCING BOXES by Front!

RED GUM

SANTOS

TINEO

Previously only available in black or white welded plate steel, Porro is now

offering these handmade tables in wood for a limited time. Not pictured

is the new wood for all Porro systems, smoked eucalyptus.

For further information please inquire at Graye

ROD seating series from Living Divani



Essential beauty

ROD

Piero lissoni 2012 for Living Divani



The news from the Milan furniture fair never fails to excite, some years more so than others. 2012

may have had less flash but the offerings from GRAYE makers still rose to the occasion

and exhibited sophisticated objects of clean modern form. The concepts of subtle detail, precise

and delicate engineering were prominent both at Living Divani and Porro. Being very much

into the technical area of design myself, I never mind when a new collection holds mostly

technical improvements and upgrades to existing product. New woods, new lighting

and sensors in cabinetry, updated and improved lacquer techniques and innovations in

upholstery frame construction shown here with the newly released ROD sofa.

In my last posting I featured a new cabinet from Piero lissoni for Porro which shares some

traits with the ROD sofa also by Lissoni. Both perched, almost stilted, clean

simple structures with some heft atop misleadingly delicate legs. Using the strength

of steel for their framing, the Tiller cabinet leaving this structure somewhat visible while the ROD

sofa buries its steel into the frame, hidden from view. This inner frame of tube, bar and

 drawn steel provides the perfect opportunity to push past other steel framed sofas.

Allowing the supporting body to be minimized in thickness and mass, giving up the invitation

of supreme comfort to the cushions, plush and supportive with a simple design detail.

A smart, fashionable seat tuft finished with a matching garment button.

Dealing with steel framed European upholstery for the last decade I often am surprised

with what this type of construction allows a sofa form to become. At times allowing the

designer to create avant-garde and sometimes outlandish forms, and at times as with ROD

to bring a form with an unreal lightness. A piece that for a split second makes you hesitate

to really drop down onto the seat for fear of hearing a crack or snap. The ROD stability calms

your nerves after first sit and with detail rich cushions of multiple foams and goosedown

 topping the sturdy frame eliminates any lingering skepticism.

An architect 'engineered' sofa is pretty hard to beat.

Available to order soon at GRAYE Los Angeles

http://www.graye-la.com/

http://www.livingdivani.it/