Using an array of techniques borrowed from boat building, Kenneth Cobonpue’s Lolah collection (including the Lolah Armchair, Coffee Table & Capsule) integrates traditional artisanship with contemporary form. For indoors, Lolah showcases the flexibility of natural rattan, used to articulate the Lolah armchair’s signature rolling topography and the ample curves found throughout the collection. For outdoors, the very same contours are realized in polyethylene.

Papillon Armchair
Citing sundry sources of inspiration—bicycle spokes, the Ferris Wheel, a certain sartorial signature of the Philippines’ Imelda Marcos—Cobonpue ultimately chose the name Papillon, “butterfly” in French, to describe the outdoor armchair’s dramatic focal point: taught linear weaving that radiates outward to form a pair of outsize arches reminiscent of wings. Hand-crafted from polyethylene, the arches set up a cocoon-like sense of privacy, without impeding the flow of light, sound and air.

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