Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has collaborated with Italian manufacturer Neri on a collection of outdoor furniture products. Named the Nebula collection, the products are designed to fill a need for considered, versatile street furniture to populate main streets and urban corridors. The collection includes bench seating, stools, tables, and a bicycle rack.
“This is a collection born of necessity,” said Carlos Madrid III, Senior Associate Principal at SOM, about the collection. “Our firm has a long history of working at the urban scale, and we have consistently found a dearth of products in the marketplace that are flexible enough to work at the scale of the conversation, as well as the scale of the city.”
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I love this!
These are fairly simple and I don't want to go all "nanny state" but I look side-eyed at any urban furniture with hard edges. Drunk people fall down, a lot.
That's a real concern, but SOM probably has a different perspective on the use case - their urban spaces tend to be highly controlled government or commercial properties. Security guards enable more generous (looking) design.
Damn, Janosh. You're absolutely correct and that's a fairly terrifying reality to contemplate ("that" being the overseeing eye of corporations, not you being right)!
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