Design brand Vitra has worked with Swiss studio Panter & Tourron on its latest sofa, Anagram, which is intended to "act like a bridge between today and tomorrow".
The Anagram sofa can be disassembled into its constituent materials for recycling and is light on foam as a filler material, in order to improve its environmental impact.
It also has a modular structure that was intended to be easy to change, whether for a short-lived activity such as a movie or game night or for a more long-lasting reconfiguration when moving homes.
The Anagram sofa is designed to be able to evolve over time
The Anagram sofa was designed in response to social and cultural changes, Vitra said.
Whereas once living room furnishings were centred on the TV, that is changing as individuals use their own devices for entertainment, or use the home for multiple functions like working. To accommodate shifting lifestyles, the company asked Panter & Tourron to create a sofa that would feel like "an assortment of possibilities" rather than something bought to fit a particular living room.
"Anagram acts like a bridge between today and tomorrow," said Stefano Panterotto, who founded Panter & Tourron together with Alexis Tourron.
The sofa can be configured in different ways with click-on modules and elements
The sofa can be adapted from a traditional seating configuration to something more "contemporary and unconventional" such as "face-to-face, back-to-ba...