By Christian Astuguevieille
Located in London, England
Ultra-marine painted cotton cord.
"Christian Astuguevieille is one of those rare polymaths one encounters in the design world, an occupational dabbler who, resisting pigeonholes, made a name for himself over the past several decades as an artistic director of both fashion and fragrance houses and also as a sculptor, a furniture designer, a maker of jewelry and objects and, not least, as the nose behind the fragrance produced by the Japanese design house, Comme des Garçons."
Guy Trebay, The New York Times, November 2011
Passionately committed to eliciting sensory reactions through all he creates, in the 1980s Astuguevieille became interested in the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi and in furoshiki - the art of wrapping objects in textile bundles. A natural progression from this departure point set the foundation of his career in designing and making rope-wrapped furniture...
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2010s French Rope Sofa Tables