Interior Design Video: Designer Jeffrey Bernett for B&B Italia

Irwin Weiner ASID - You've seen my focus this week on outdoor furniture, and earlier we covered some beautiful new lounger designs, perfect shapes and elegant functionality and materials for pool, patio, deck, and lanai.

I was attracted to the following video interview of designer Jeffrey Bernett because he has taken the Landscape chaise lounge concept he developed for B&B Italia and been allowed to creatively tweak the designs by making design changes that add slight twists to the original: a headrest that stays put where you want it thanks to magnetism, a rolled arm for reading the newspaper, a gentle curve in the legs for rocking, a colorful mattress pad to give the piece more comfort and a quick chameleon-like appearance change.

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Click here to watch the video on Jeffrey Bernett's Tulip Chair for B&B Italia: B&B Italia's 2000 Tulip Chair Swings Into the Future.

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B&B Italia's 2000 Tulip Chair Swings Into the Future

Irwin Weiner ASID - While many furniture vendors are seeing sales slump during the recession, B&B Italia has thrived. Why? I feel that they've captured the look of the moment: contemporary, but not boringly classic and clean. Their pieces all have a sense of style and quirky humor. There are splashes of color, elements of surprise, giant prints - and they avoid giving furniture a square, beige mid-century boxy look. Kudos to designer Jeffrey Bernett for designing the reengineered Tulip Chair from the Sixties for B&B. As you'll see in this video, a new classic was created in 2000, with wonderful twists on the ordinary and expected. 

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