Boring Collection by Space Encounters
If its name is any indication, the “Boring Collection” by Space Encounters for Lensvelt is the antidote to the typical hype and spectacle of the Salone del Mobile this year.
If its name is any indication, the “Boring Collection” is the antidote to the typical hype and spectacle of the Salone del Mobile. The unremarkable series of office furnishings is the result of a collaboration between the Dutch contract furniture brand Lensvelt and Amsterdam-based architecture studio Space Encounters.
Acknowledging the stringent European standards for office furniture, the Space Encounters set out to design the most generic furniture possible in order to “let the overall interior design shine.” The backstory takes a duly blasé tone: “Sober gray, no fuzz, no pretensions. The tagline: Because it’s not about furniture. It’s time to put everything else front and centre: the interior design, the view, that other great chair, the pictures on the wall, the people.”
In short, the new collection is expressly intended to fade into the background — which is precisely why it takes the likes of visual virtuosos Lernert & Sander to make magic from the mundane. Watch below, and don’t miss the exhibition at Via Privata Oslavia 1.
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