News for Alexander Wang lovers !!!!!
9:38 AM
+Wall Street Journal just realeased the news that the famous designer just signed a collaboration with a very popular Italian design company for interior design.Newest collaboration includes and $ 8.800 Bean Bag Chair.
Alexander Wang who recently launched his fashion line in collaboration
with H&M is making now his first fray into the world of furniture design.
Considered for many years a force in the fashion world, now it looks like the famed designer decided for real to start a project he has considering for manny years.
The fashion designer told to +Wall Street Journal :
“Over the last 10 years, furniture is where my interest has really evolved,” “When I started working in fashion, I always had an idea of an environment in my head, but how to actualize it, and what the references meant, that’s new.” Since collaborating on the design of his flagship store and New York City apartment with his good friend Ryan Korban, an interior decorator, Wang has developed a liking for exotic finishes and the furniture of Karl Springer and Milo Baughman, among others.
For his new furniture design colection he will collaborate with +Poltrona Frau (Poltrona Frau is a furniture-maker founded in 1912 by Sardinian-born Renzo Frau[1] in Turin, Italy, headquartered since the early 1960s[2] in Tolentino, Italy and specializing in leather seating for interior and automotive applications.[3] The company name combines the Italian word for armchair, "Poltrona" and "Frau, the last name of its founder.
The pieces he’s designed for +Poltrona Frau —set to launch in stores in February—include a brass-footed beanbag chair in inky black shearling, a second version in leather and a companion bar cabinet, wrapped in squares of jet-black shagreen, that opens to reveal jagged brass shelves. Almost two years in the making, the offerings are totems of Wang’s louche interpretation of luxury and his streetwise attitude: The chair’s base has nine sides, for instance, rather than a symmetrical eight, and the bar swivels on luggage-style wheels.
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