Modular furniture, a concept that is still in fashion – Libération

Bookcases, sofas, lighting… The interest of contemporary designers and their editors for modular furniture, adapted to more mobile lifestyles and smaller interiors, is not drying up. New demonstrations during Paris Design Week this week.

Is it a bench? Or rather, a divan with its chaise longue? Perhaps a loveseat? Or maybe a simple sofa? The Anagram sofa, presented at the beginning of September during Paris Design Week (1) at the Vitra showroom, rue Boudreau (9th arrondissement), is in fact all of these things at once. Designed by the young Franco-Italian pair of designers Stefano Panterotto and Alexis Tourron, at the request of the Swiss publisher, this seat allows the addition of “islands”, from one or more platforms, to which removable, (un)clippable and interchangeable backrests or side tables can be added, depending on the wishes and needs of the moment.

The piece of furniture, which can be adjusted as desired, has no orientation or configuration indicated. A way of multiplying its uses. Thus, one can have a face-to-face discussion, work, sleep, eat, or even play a board game. “Anagram is not just a comfortable sofa. It is a flexible living room system that can be easily adapted to changing needs in seconds, plead his thirty-year-old parents, Panter & Tourron. It is suitable for a wide range of activities and we want to encourage people to explore the possibilities it offers in their daily lives.”

Revolutionary? For furniture, modularity, which is based on the ability of an object to be transformed, is