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May 3, 2005 / Elmar Flötotto / Furniture / Ingmar Kurth / Johannes Gumpp / Michael Bresser

One of the simplest, lowest-cost and most comfortable pieces of furniture ever made must be the bean bag: a cushion filled with balls of styrofoam, invented in 1969 by the Italian company Zanotta and the designers Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro.
When you sit in it, the balls adapt perfectly so that you can sit as if on a cloud.
In contrast to the Zanotta beanbag, COUCH has the form of a sofa and an inner textile structure that looks a bit like a kite.
This is welded to the outer skin by means of a specially developed plastic connector.
When the cover is filled, this internal structure forces it into its previously determined shape.
COUCH has been manufactured since 2006 by Flötotto from Gütersloh, who make a highly successful generic beanbag under the name Sitting Bull. The special design of COUCH means that it can be made using the same production equipment.
A two-seater version cost approximately 700€.

Flötotto

Couch

Jan 15, 2005 / Elmar Flötotto / Furniture / Ingmar Kurth / Johannes Gumpp / Michael Bresser

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