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CONTENT / SADRŽAJ prostoria - Innovation as social responsibility / Inovativnost kao društvena odgovornost CHAIRS / EASY CHAIRS / TABLES / SMALL TABLES STOLICE / FOTELJE / STOLOVI / STOLIĆI SOFAS / SOFABEDS / ACCESSORIES SOFE / SOFE NA RAZVLAČENJE / DODACI BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAFIJ

prostoria - Innovation as social responsibility / Inovativnost kao društvena odgovornost MAROJE MRDULJAŠ

We tend to perceive furniture as something abstract, created on designers' desks and then produced, branded and placed on the market by companies with different statuses and reputations. In fact, relations inside the contemporary globalized furniture industry are becoming more and more fragmented with less and less opportunity for complete dedication to synergies and collaborations... prostoria, as a young company whose catalogue already comprises some new icons such as the Polygon armchair and the Revolve transformable sofa, stands as an example of a different and more traditional approach...

Rapid development of prostoria, formerly known as Kvadra, a company which has come a long way, from ‘starting from zero’ to positioning itself as the leader and promoter of new ideas in only a few years time, is a story about the reintroduction of continuity both in Croatia and Central Europe, a region with vital but insufficiently recognized design scene and remarkable tradition and knowledge of the furniture industry. Those elements served as latent potentials that provided grounds for continuation and had to be activated. Since the beginning, prostoria has been developing an integrative...

A dynamic workshop ambience has been created offering opportunities mainly to young designers to explore their ideas in excellent conditions and bring them to the highest level of design, functionality and technological artisanship. Many products have been developed over longer periods of time surpassing a number of iterations until reaching their final form, which would be impossible without the adequate support combining the contemporary technology and meticulous craftsmanship and handwork of the highest quality. Predominantly local materials are used, especially solid wood, and most of...

While the company's catalogue also offers furniture based on already proven models, prostoria shows strategic and even passionate dedication to research-based design, convinced that authenticity has its place on the market but presents a special challenge in the times when it seems almost impossible to create truly innovative and fresh concepts. Iako u svojem katalogu nudi i namještaj baziran na provjerenim modelima, prostoria je strateški, pa i strastveno posvećena istraživački orijentiranom dizajnu, vjerujući da izvornost ima svoje mjesto na tržištu, ali predstavlja i poseban izazov u...

For that reason, prostoria's social responsibility and specific position have to be observed as a contribution to the evolution of design and readiness to take the risk in order to reach new values for the benefit of users and the culture. Thus, prostoria stands as a distinct project inside of which designers grow together with the company on the grounds of mutual trust and shared goals. This is why designers and their creations have been given the leading role in this catalogue... Zato društvenu odgovornost, pa i specifičnu poziciju prostorie treba promatrati upravo kao doprinos evoluciji...

CHAIRS / EASY CHAIRS / TABLES / SMALL TABLES POLYGON 20 RHOMB 32 MONK 44 OBLIQUE 58 DOBRA 72 STOLICE / FOTELJE / STOLOVI / STOLIĆI

Ever since we first began to engage with design, we were fascinated with the standard modernist typology of chairs with modest dimensions that meet all functional parameters, without burdening the space with their bulkiness. We have explored a series of alternatives that are in line with these values, but also offer a new formal approach. Polygon retains all traditional elements of a modernist chair, but deconstructs them, creating new relations between them. The form of the bent steel bars of the structure, the seat and the backrest are coordinated via a triangular geometry. The...

25 ARMCHAIR / FABRIC CANVAS, STRUCTURE METAL COATED, ARMRESTS ASHWOOD FOTELJA / TKANINA CANVAS, KONSTRUKCIJA METAL PLASTICIFIRANI, RUKONASLONI JASEN prostoria POLYGON

U Polygonu su zadržani svi tradicionalni elementi modernističke stolice, no oni su dekonstruirani i dovedeni u nove odnose. Rezultat je ponešto začudni proizvod koji se doima poznatim, ali istovremeno i izrazito suvremenim. Polygon retains all traditional elements of a modernist chair, but deconstructs them, creating new relations between them. The resulting product has a somewhat defamiliarizing effect, seeming both familiar and distinctly contemporary. ARMCHAIR / FABRIC CANVAS, STRUCTURE COPPER, ARMRESTS ASHWOOD FOTELJA / TKANINA CANVAS, KONSTRUKCIJA METAL BAKAR, RUKONASLONI JASEN...

Restaurant Tatel Madrid, Spain / Project: Ilmiodesign, Andrea Spada & Michele Corbani / Photo: Uxio Davila Villa The One, Kožljak, Istria, Croatia / Project: Denis & Lana Galić / Photo: Level52 Microsoft Executive Lounge, Vienna, Austria / Photo: Paul Ott

SMALL TABLE / LEGS METAL COATED BLACK, TABLE TOP FENIX NTM STOLIĆ / NOGE METALNE PLASTIFICIRANE CRNO, PLOČA FENIX NTM ARMCHAIR / FABRIC HALLINGDAL, STRUCTURE METAL COATED, ARMRESTS WALLNUT FOTELJA / TKANINA HALLINGDAL, KONSTRUKCIJA METAL PLASTIFICIRANI, RUKONASLON ORAH

INTERIOR INNOVATION AWARD 2014 WINNER GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2015 WINNER

As a company, prostoria is oriented to the production in solid wood, which has resulted in the creation of the Rhomb chair, my first project realized in that noble material. Our intention was to design a chair with a distinguishing identity combined with accentuated comfortableness. For that reason, our design includes a number of small but decisive shifts in geometry and ergonomics that have been meticulously researched in the course of the project development. The Rhomb is somewhat wider than a common chair while its backrest organically continues into prolonged armrests. This allows for...