impression sofa

Impression Sofa  | © Meike Harde

The sofa series Impression incorporates elegance and comfort. Low and slim armrests and backrest shape a gentle impression with curved inner parts for comfortable seating. Filigree but strong legs emphasize a fresh look. Delicate appearance is combined with a special detail on the armrests. An impression on each corner is repeated also on added cushions. The sofa comes also with open end modules, so it can be combined in various compositions.

Impression Data Sheet

Technical Info

Dimensions

• Two Seater: 65″w | 35.5″ d | 27h” | 15.8″ seat height
• 2.5 Seater: 78.8″w | 35.5″ d | 27h” | 15.8″ seat height
• Three Seater: 78.8″w | 35.5″ d | 27h” | 15.8″ seat height

+ Leg Option One

+ Leg Option Two

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Meike Harde

Studio Meike Harde founded in 2013 is based in Cologne, Germany. Her language of shapes, visually light and constructively smart, works with common materials in new contexts to overcome established forms.
Meike Harde devotes herself especially to textile materials and applications. Here she re-thinks common manufacturing technologies and construction rules: she studies the behavior and properties of the particular material in order to apply her conclusions to new possibilities in sewing and constructing upholstery, lighting or accessoires.

Prostoria

We tend to perceive furniture as something abstract, created on designers’ desks and then produced, branded and placed on the market by companies with different statuses and reputations. In fact, relations inside the contemporary globalized furniture industry are becoming more and more fragmented with less and less opportunity for complete dedication to synergies and collaborations… Prostoria, as a young company whose catalogue already comprises some new icons such as the Polygon armchair and the Revolve transformable sofa, stands as an example of a different and more traditional approach based on the evolution from the local factuality and logical clustering of all actors involved in the production process.

Rapid development of Prostoria, formerly known as Kvadra, a company which has come a long way, from “starting from zero” to positioning itself as the leader and promoter of new ideas in only a few years time, is a story about the reintroduction of continuity both in Croatia and Central Europe, a region with vital but insufficiently recognized design scene and remarkable tradition and knowledge of the furniture industry. Those elements served as latent potentials that provided grounds for continuation and had to be activated.

Since the beginning, Prostoria has been developing an integrative approach, functioning as a collaboration platform that nourishes and stimulates continuous exchange of knowledge and experience between all the actors participating in the production of furniture. A dynamic workshop ambience has been created offering opportunities mainly to young designers to explore their ideas in excellent conditions and bring them to the highest level of design, functionality and technological artisanship. Many products have been developed over longer periods of time surpassing a number of iterations until reaching their final form, which would be impossible without the adequate support combining the contemporary technology and meticulous craftsmanship and handwork of the highest quality. Predominantly local materials are used, especially solid wood, and most of the production takes place within the company itself or in collaboration with local cooperatives.

While the company’s catalogue also offers furniture based on tested models, Prostoria shows strategic and even passionate dedication to research-based design, convinced that authenticity has its place on the market but presents a special challenge in the times when it seems almost impossible to create truly innovative and fresh concepts. For that reason, Prostoria’s social responsibility and specific position have to be observed as a contribution to the evolution of design and readiness to take the risk in order to reach new values for the benefit of users and the culture. Thus, Prostoria stands as a project inside of which designers grow together with the company on the grounds of mutual trust and shared goals.

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