Casamania - SOS coffee table

 

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Casamania’s SOS coffee table is created for relaxed, convivial moments. In fact, SOS is not only a coffee table on which you can put your newspaper, cup or telephone, but it’s also a stool and even more: The two elements attached to the seat can be used as cup-holders, handles (for use as a tray) or hooks. Turned upside-down it becomes a fun and unusual vase or container. Created in mass-coloured polyethylene it is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.

Designer Josh Owen on the Design: “I have always been interested in small stools. Commonly considered less desirable than chairs as an object of study for designers, they are a seating category often overlooked in general. Now synonymous with a distress signal, S.O.S. began as a naval term: the original meaning was "Save Our Ship". Like a life-raft, the SOS Stool is a floating island of utility that extends beyond the parameters of what we consider a temporary seat.”

Casamania's SOS coffe table and stool is on request available in the colours red, orange, light blue, and light brown.

Design: Josh Owen

Josh Owen was born in the United States in 1970. He lives and works in a retro-fitted cigar factory in south Philadelphia. His projects are included in museum collections, numerous books on design and are regularly featured in international magazines. Designer Josh Owen