TIME LOUNGE Collection

Alfredo Häberli, 2019

The ancient art of origami, which transforms paper into a variety of shapes by folding, provided the inspiration for TIME, the armchair designed by Alfredo Häberli for Alias. The basic principle of this project is the transformation of a simple two-dimensional sheet into a three-dimensional shell. TIME was born of the gesture of the designer in giving shape to a shell characterised by great stylistic balance and unique ergonomic characteristics.

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The die-cutting process performed on the sheet, which consists of a sandwich of wood and composites, enables the parts to be fitted together seamlessly, and creates a highly ergonomic, enveloping design.
Flexible and sturdy, thanks to the leading-edge technologies borrowed from snowboard manufacturing, the shell is supported by a slim metal frame.
With Time, Häberli experimented with the latest manufacturing techniques and found in Alias the ideal partner to give voice to a new, contemporary language, whereby highly innovative contents can coexist with a strong human component.

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Alfredo Häberli

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1964 and moved to Zurich in 1977: here he began his work in 1988 as stand designer and curator of numerous exhibitions at the Museum für Gestaltung. He received a degree in Industrial Design from the Höhere Schule für Gestaltung in 1991. In 1997 he designed for Alias the SEC modular system. In the following years he designed Legnoletto (2001), Segesta (2003), Plein Air (2007), Stabiles (2009), Cross table, TEC (2011), The Erice and Enna chairs, Tessiletto bed (2013), Ago table (2014) and Time armchair (2019), which won the RedDot Design Award in 2020.
He lives and works in Zurich.

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