Spring 2022
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GUBI GOES AL FR ESCO GUBI is venturing into the open air and breaking down the boundaries between inside and out. This new take on al fresco design features new collections from archival and contemporary designers, alongside outdoor versions of muchloved indoor classics. In the threshold spaces between inside and outside, iconic designers’ visions of la dolce vita come to life, with a refined bohemian aesthetic and a sense of celebration. The divisions between inside and out have been blurring for decades, and today, there is a distinct global shift towards a more flexible approach to where...

In the year that Italian, designer Gabriella Crespi would have turned. 100, and 50 years after its initial conception, GUBI is putting, the. Bohemian 72 Collection into production for the first time. The collection is the beginning of a new collaboration with, Archivio Gabriella Crespi and reflects the harmony between Crespi's , artistic, bohemian vision and her love of travel and GUBI’s confident cura-tions and global outlook.

Bohemian 72 Ottoman Bohemian 72 Floor Lamp Born in 1922, Italian artist and designer Gabriella Crespi would have turned 100 this year. Throughout her extraordinary career in the design world, she moved effortlessly among both European royalty and the Hollywood jet set. Her indisputable glamour and sophisticated sense of style made her a muse to the fashion designer Valentino, and brought the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Gianni Versace, and Hubert de Givenchy into her social circle. As a designer, it was her gift for streamlined forms and lavish material finishes that won her a dedicated...

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B O H E M I A N 7 2 C R E SP I ’ S R E F I N E D LO U N G E L I F E ST Y L E To honor the inspiring and extraordinary designer that Gabriella Crespi was, GUBI is proud to introduce the Bohemian 72 Collection. Elegant, flexible, and refined, this collection is the distillation of Crespi’s vision of a versatile rattan furniture family for what she called her ‘house of the sun’. The pinnacle of the jet-set bohemian lounge lifestyle, Bohemian 72 brings together Crespi’s interest in natural materials, her fascination with stacked sculptural forms, and her curiosity about Eastern cultures and...

Drawn to rattan for its strength and versatility, she conceived these pieces at a time when the material was very much in vogue within the high-society circles in which she moved, viewed as the height of interior sophistication. Her decision to use repeating layers of vertically coiled rattan vines, however, was unusual for the time, and results in a distinctive and highly luxurious take on lounge furniture that has proven truly timeless. Crespi’s goal was to create a flexible rattan seating collection that felt equally at home in the city or the country, at the seaside or high on a...

Bohemian 72 Ottoman Bohemian 72 Sofa 9602 Floor Lamp

UP C L O SE Each of the seats is topped with a lavishly plump cushion that follows the outline of the rattan frame perfectly, based on Crespi’s original drawings. Sleek in form but supremely soft, they introduce a cosseting level of comfort to the collection. This near-decadent focus on indulgence is emphasized in the backrest of the lounge chair, which has a generous 115º incline to encourage even deeper relaxation. The floor lamp has a shade formed from a vertical arrangement of rattan strips, with brass detailing. The pattern of the strips allows the lamp to cast a beautifully delicate...

Left: Bohemian 72 Lounge Chair Right: Bohemian 72 Ottoman, Epic Coffee Table

French designer Marcel Gascoin (1907-1986) was one of the leadingfurniture designers of the post-war era. He is recognizedfor the vital role he played in the reconstruction of France after the Second World War, when his pragmatic modular storage units and matching sets of wooden furniture, whichfocusedon clean aesthetics andfunctionality, became a staple for French households.

GASCO IN During the post-war housing crisis in France, Gascoin worked as an interior architect and designer for the French Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism, designing homes as well as the furniture to go inside them. He drew on his long-held love of wood, his childhood fascination with compact and efficient nautical interiors, and his training as an interior designer and cabinetmaker to create a new standard for furniture that was rational and utilitarian. The new concept of a “living-room” (pièce à vivre) was launched at the “Logis 49” fair in Paris, combining two traditionally...

The garden gets an upgrade with the simple functionality of two of Marcel Gascoin’s most enduring iconic designs. GUBI’s new outdoor collection, now in teak, represents significant innovation for Gascoin’s iconic design, adapting the C-Chair for al fresco mealtimes, and adding a new lounge typology to GUBI’s collection. A new outdoor version of the much-loved C-Chair – a dining chair originally designed in 1947 for post-war housing in France – is joined outside by a little-known Gascoin gem, the F-Chair. The more relaxed incline and paddle-shaped armrests, together with its woven seat which...

AFFAI R Both the C-Chair and the F-Chair are optimized for the outdoors in both their ergonomics and their materiality. Proportions have been fine-tuned to maximize comfort and frames have been carefully crafted with traditional joinery using plantation teak. The seats and backrests are tightly woven from an outdoor all-weather fiber made of an extruded polyethylene and twisted to resemble natural hyacinth woven furniture. The weave pattern creates triangle shapes from all four sides of the seat and backrest, converging at the center of each like an envelope. The woven cord captures the...

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