Porto
Porto Relax Chair by Frans Schrofer - Studio Schrofer is a winner of the 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Porto is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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Frans Schrofer's Porto for Danish brand BoConcept, functions as a personal harbor of comfort, while visually communicating confidence, intelligence and elegance. A confluence of sculptural forms and converging angles, establish an ergonomically perfect support. The swivel mechanism with tilt function, allows for a relaxed 360 degrees panoramic experience, with recline or bounce. The generously proportioned elliptical headrest shields one from visual/auditory distractions during live or on-line conversations. Elevate the feet on the matching footrest to alleviate the weight of the day.
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Porto by Frans Schrofer - Studio Schrofer
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Relax Chair
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2022.
Silver Winner
Porto Relax Chair
Porto is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Porto is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Porto is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Frans Schrofer - Studio Schrofer
Frans has an insatiable passion for tools. He completed several mechanical educations and holds a degree from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In 1984, Frans Schrofer founded Studio Schrofer. He had the vision to create furniture designs that balanced sculptural beauty with ergonomic excellence. Nearly forty years on, Studio Schrofer has grown from a passion into an international business with a multi-disciplinary team. Today, his innovative outlook, technical prowess and appreciation for organic and feminine forms dictate that comfort and multi-functionality be central to his designs. Studio Schrofer stands apart from other designers in its attention to detail and understanding of diverse lifestyles that express user individuality . This allows the studio to excel at tailoring designs to client needs, creating unique lexicon of form that speaks to the hearts of people from The Netherlands to all corners of the globe. Schrofer’s designs continue to intrigue artists, engineers, and above all those who value comfort and aesthetics. Their designs achievements have been recognized by the Dutch government and the international design industry, resulting in numerous design awards and appointment of the studio as Creative Ambassador for The Hague.
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BoConcept
BoConcept is a Danish retail furniture chain, founded in Denmark in 1952 and is now a premium lifestyle retail brand with nearly three hundred stores in more than sixty countries. BoConcept design, produce and sell contemporary furniture, accessories and lighting for the living room, dining room, bedroom, home office, garden and terrace.
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