The Campana Brothers have created a special edition of their infamous ‘Vermelha’ chair modeled after the Italian flag for Edra.
The chair takes four days to make and uses 500 meters of acrylic and natural cotton rope. While the final design looks very random, the chair actually uses a complex knotting system that only one person in Edra’s factory can perform.
‘Wrap-around armchair with steel frame painted with epoxy powders. Several days’ manual work is required to build the seat, together with high expertise for the weaving. The five hundred metres of special rope with an acrylic core, covered in cotton, are first woven onto the frame to create a structure and then plaited by consecutive overlapping, leaving sufficient surplus to form a kind of random weave which creates an unusual padding.’
The special edition ‘Italian Pride’ model is available only on demand.
Edra has also developed special Christmas decorations using the rope from the ‘Vermelha’. They will be having a live hand making performance of the ‘Vermelha’ in their Milan showroom from December 16 -18, 2009.
