name: Newcastle
client: Meritalia
date: April 2013
project assistant: Alessandro Stabile
photo credits: Max Rommel

When I was a child, the family sofa was a metaphorical castle in which to take refuge during playtime.

The opportunity to design a new sofa was a fantastic chance to transfer a child’s dreams onto the drawing sheet. So here we have monolithic geometries, the backrest designed like a large buttress, right down to the armrests designed like blocks of stone, all concurring to define a form with strongly characterised and recognisable lines: a New Castle in which to take refuge and rest again as in the past…..