Sofa ‘BOTAN’ by BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE

The architect Benedetta Tagliabue, continuing its foray into furniture design, has designed a new modular sofa in partnership with Passoni Nature, called "Botan".

Botan, meaning Peony in Japanese, has comfortable seating volume. Its components of wood and fabric are combined as the petals of this peony. A flower, the flower represents nature, the main thing that inspires products by Passoni Nature.

The fabrics are designed by combining similar tones and then piecing strips to play with art "figure-ground" with floral elements. Two "poufs" complete the composition, creating a real flower with a geometry that allows for a multitude of possible combinations.

A comfortable wood and fabric seat whose components join like the petals of a flower, producing endlessly harmonious, balanced combinations, inspired by nature. Two poufs designed to be placed in many different ways complete the composition.

All these modular elements, which can be applied in a multitude of combinations, offer enormous freedom for composition and can produce surprising effects that create flowers and butterflies. Botan adapts to any kind of space. The solid wood frame, the use of zero-emission adhesives, the natural linen and cotton fabric and the print created with certified EcoLabel colours, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue, make this sofa a balanced and responsible product, just like Passoni Nature.

Its solid wood frame, the use of zero-emission adhesives, natural fibre fabrics, stuffing made of water and raw materials from renewable sources like soya, a mix of essential oils and medicinal herbs offer complete wellbeing.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT and Passoni Nature present between April 8 to April 11, 2014, in Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014, Milano. Hall 12 Stand C18.

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Overview. Sofa ‘BOTAN’ by Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature.

Sofa ‘BOTAN’ by Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature.

Compositions. Sofa ‘BOTAN’ by Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature.

Dimensions plan. Sofa ‘BOTAN’ by Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature.

Detail. Sofa ‘BOTAN’ by Benedetta Tagliabue for Passoni Nature.

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Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’ studio where she eventually became a partner. Her work with Miralles, whom she married, includes a number of high profile buildings and projects in Barcelona: Parque Diagonal Mar (1997-2002), Head Office Gas Natural (1999-2006) and the Market and quarter Santa Caterina (1996-2005), as well as projects across Europe, including the School of Music in Hamburg (1997-2000) and the City Hall in Utrecht (1996-2000).

In 1998, the partnership won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building and despite Miralles’ premature death in 2000, Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint Project Director and the Parliament was successfully completed in 2004, winning several awards.

She won the competition for the new design of Hafencity Harbor in Hamburg , Germany, for a subway train station in Naples and for the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 among others.

Today under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio works with architectural projects, open spaces, urbanism, rehabilitation and exhibitions, trying to conserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition which espouses collaboration rather than specialization.

Their architectural philosophy is dedicating special attention to context.

Benedetta has written for several architectural magazines and has taught at, amongst other places, the University of architecture ETSAB in Barcelona. She has lectured in many international architectural Forums as, for example, the RIBA, the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in, London, the Berlage Institut in Amsterdam, and in USA, China and South America.