Gabriella Crespi bamboo and rattan furnishings by Gubi

Gabriella Crespi rattan furniture is revived by Gubi

Danish home furnishings organization Gubi honours Gabriella Crespi on what would have been the late designer’s 100th birthday (17 February 2022), with the reissue of a home furnishings assortment to start with conceived in the 1970s. Dubbed ‘Bohemian 72’, the collection of rattan garden home furniture embodies Crespi’s vision for a refined and calm lifestyle, and proves the designer’s modernity 50 several years after its creation. 

The items, comprising a lounge chair, three-seater sofa, ottoman and flooring lamp, ended up designed by Crespi for personal consumers, and never place into generation or accessible to the general public. With each other, the models communicate of her fascination with cultures and philosophies from the Far East, and her fascination in using all-natural, humble elements in a subtle setting. The designs originated on Crespi’s terrace on a summer time day, and were portion of a wider collection of home furniture styles in bamboo and rattan. 

Lounge chair, from $2,999 

This is the first time Gubi has introduced Crespi’s models, which be part of a portfolio of layout reissues by some of the most celebrated names of the past, from mirrors by Gio Ponti to lights by Greta Magnusson Grossman and furniture by Pierre Paulin, as properly as contemporary will work by leading designers of right now, including Gam Fratesi and Room Copenhagen. 

‘Gabriella Crespi experienced a enormous talent for navigating the areas involving indoor and outdoor and never permit just about anything block the light and air flowing as a result of her very own household,’ responses Gubi’s main internet marketing officer, Marie Kristine Schmidt. ‘It is our delight and privilege to be bringing the work of this kind of a style icon into creation for a lot more men and women to love.’

Ground lamp, $1,299 

Although rattan was a well-liked material for furniture in the 1970s, Crespi’s thought of creating a modular structure by repeating the coiled vines was progressive for the time, and the pieces’ reissue 50 years following their creation proves her skill to develop timeless will work. The assortment is also aspect of Crespi’s ambition to develop what she termed ‘the residence of the sun’, an setting that blended warmth and sophistication.

‘I couldn’t assist but do it with rattan and bamboo, products of which I’m pretty fond and that mix power and overall flexibility, the heat of mellow tones, and the skill to be run by means of by light,’ stated Crespi of the collection. ‘Very long spokes give an perception of the infinite and indeterminate just as cane thickets that increase toward the sky do in character.’ §