A unique language that blends design, architecture, art, and conscious thinking. (Italy – Denmark)
OLDER is part of the 13 designers selected for ZOO’s inaugural temporary exhibition.
ZOO _Hub spaces are concept stores and galleries, serving as a global showcase capable of narrating untold stories. Periodically, the ZOO team will curate exhibitions and collectives that traverse the broad discourse surrounding contemporary design.
Wide eye, wake up
Nylon and elastic
For the WIDE EYE exhibition, OLDER and Danish artist Alexander Vinther have created a series of works that reflect a playful devotion to contemporary design and its many branches.
The WIDE EYE WAKE UP sofa is a nylon piece consisting of three individual chairs held together as a single sofa by elastic bands, which can be reconfigured to use the chairs separately or in a combination.
It is a mattress system, inspired by the challenge to pattern cut a sofa as if it were a garment, and drawing upon OLDER’s extensive experience in the ateliers. WIDE EYE WAKE UP balances the Italian and Danish background of the trio, as the Italian tradition for big, soft furniture is mixed with the tall, clean structure but also as a sofa or combined seating or three individual office chairs.
WIDE EYE WAKE UP is not politely reserved or elegantly refined, and that is exactly the point: it is meant to provoke the general idea of what good taste is within contemporary design, to “wake up” the viewer into “wide-eyed” curiosity within their core context of the European design scene.
About OLDER
Da un’idea di Letizia Caramia e Morten Thuesen, nasce OLDER, un’azienda di design italo-danese specializzata in uniformi sostenibili. La sostenibilità è la caratteristica imprescindibile di ogni progetto firmato OLDER: tutti i materiali sono 100% italiani ed ogni pezzo è prodotto in Europa. Oggi Older si è trasformata in una realtà eclettica: dalle uniformi funzionali ed inclusive ai progetti di design artigianale, come i pezzi Furniform – i mobili uniformi – e vanta come clienti numerose aziende considerate vere e proprie istituzioni nel mondo dell’architettura, del design e della gastronomia. Older vuole spingersi sempre oltre utilizzando un linguaggio unico, che unisca design, architettura, arte e pensiero consapevole.
