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THE COCONUT LOUNGE CHAIR

ntroduced in 1956, the Coconut Lounge Chair is a strange design at first glance, almost like the beginning of an origami fold. “It's worth considering that as far as chairs go, few. “It really has the appearance of one fluid gesture, which aside from the angularity of me seat's edges and legs, gives it a quite elegant overall appearance. If you study its form as if it were sculpture, you see how balanced it is. As one moves around the chair, it moves with you, always submitting its supple curvilinear shapes, while simultaneously confounding the organic quality with a geometric rigor. It's really a perfect chair.”

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