Edra s.p.a. is an Italian manufacturing company specialized in the creation of innovative
designer furniture.
History
The name "Edra" is a modification of the Greek word "''έδρα''", meaning a place for philosophical discussion. Founded in
1987
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, Edra is an international design furniture company that is based in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
. It is known for manufacturing designs that challenge preconceived notions of how a chair, sofa, table, bed, storage cabinet, or even a mirror can look. Working with several critically-acclaimed designers like Francesco Binfaré,
Humberto and Fernando Campana, and Jacopo Foggini – all of whom use materials and technologies in unexpected ways combined with artistic tradition to create furniture and objects that are profoundly sculptural seemingly often with no historic aesthetic precedent.
Important Designer Collaborations
In 1992, Binfaré was invited by Massimo Morozzi to design for Edra. His early work for Edra included L'Homme et la Femme (1993), Tangeri (1994) and Angels (1996). In the 21st century, Binfare has created a number of new seating icons - On the Rocks (2004), Flap (2006), Absolu (2015), and Essential (2016).
Humberto and Fernando have been frequent collaborators with Edra creating numerous award-winning designs that include chairs, sofas, tables, cabinets, beds, lighting, and mirrors. All of their work is seemingly underscored by the assembly - nailing, riveting, stitching, knotting, welding, clipping - of individual elements into an overall form.
Having long experimented with manipulating
polycarbonate
Polycarbonates (PC) are a group of thermoplastic polymers containing carbonate groups in their chemical structures. Polycarbonates used in engineering are strong, tough materials, and some grades are optically transparent. They are easily work ...
by hand rather than mold, Foggini has created several chair designs for Edra including Alice, Ella, Gila, and Gina.
Edra Designs Included in Museum Collections
MOMA
Moma may refer to:
People
* Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist
* Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician
* Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher
Places
; Ang ...
– Flap Sofa (2000); Vermelha (1993); Corallo (2004)
Cooper Hewitt – Vermelha (1993)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...
– Vermelha (1993), Favela (1991)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
– Favela (1991)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...
– Favela (1991)
See also
*
List of Italian companies
References
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Companies established in 1987
Furniture companies of Italy
Companies based in Tuscany
Italian brands
Lighting brands