Cappellini - Body Raft Swing-chaiselongue

 

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Body Raft is a Chaiselongue with swing function.

The idea to the flexible and slightly appealing structure has been coined by the designer David Trubridge. The life history of the native Britain that initially studied shipbuilding and reached the furniture design through numerous influences that he collected while he travelled around the world and in New Zeeland, is doubtlessly mirrored in this design. Inspired by his travels and meetings with inhabitants, a series of objects emerged that are based on the forms of traditional Maori canoes. The famous object out of this series is probably the swing-couch Body Raft that David Turbridge presented on the Milan Furniture Fair 2001.

Cappellini did directly ensure this exptic design and helped Davod Turbridge thereby to become an international furniture designer. Since 2002 Cappellini produces the swing-couch out of arched, massive and natural-coloured beech wood battens. The rings inside of the structure are made out of beech plywood.

Supplementary information

• Datasheet for the Body Raft Swing-chaiselongue (PDF 444 KB)

Design: David Trubridge

David Trubridge is a natuve English and lives and works in New Zeeland today. The design of his swing couch Body Raft was inspired by the form of traditional Maori canoes and is produced by Cappellini today. Designer David Trubridge