Adam Nathaniel Furman's latest furniture collection is a "bourgeois' nightmare"
London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has collaborated with Abet Laminati to create a three-piece collection of unusually shaped and boldly coloured furniture for Camp Design Gallery.
The collection, titled Three characters in the Second Act: The Royal Family, comprises two large cabinets, called Benevolente and Solidale, and a chair, named Gioioso.
Each of the pieces have been given intentionally "clumsy" names of seldom-used Italian words to match their unusual shapes and designs.
"Benevolente" can be translated as "benevolent" or "kind", while "solidale" means "sympathetic" and "gioioso" translates as "happy". The name of each object hints towards the joyful concept behind the collection.
Each furniture object has been decorated with vivid colours and bold, intricate patterns using digitally printed laminate produced by decorative laminate manufacturer Abet Laminati.
The collection was shown at this year's edition of Design Miami/Basel.
"Three Characters in the Second Act is a vision of the home as a court of domestic deviance played out through the ecstatic surfaces of a bourgeois' nightmare," said the designer.
Furman began designing the range soon after completing his initial collection with Abet Laminati, called Four Characters in the First Act, which was shown in an exhibition at Camp Design Gallery curated by Marco Sammicheli in 2017.
"That was the moment when we began...
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