The French firm Roche Bobois devoted to furniture design and distribution, has launched its Pulp, series designed by Eugeni Quitllet (Ibiza, 1972). The result of this collaboration is a collection of biomorphic tables, chairs, and armchars, shunning straight lines. With its refinedly rendered finishes, the pieces draw inspiration from the living world, and go by the principle of dissociating elements and ‘molecules’ (designer’s word) that show ‘a body made up of organs’ and its divisions.

The tables have legs describable as fleshy and malleable, like the tentacles of an organism. They are designed openly, showing their insides, their hearts. Eugeni Quitllet has come up with two versions using different materials. One, lacquered and glossy, expresses the plasticity of forms that look alive and come in different colors (creamy white, Jaipur burgundy, chocolate), with the upper part made of Fenix®, a material composed of thermoplastic resins. The other model presents solid ashwood legs and a top of flamed veneer.

The chairs also evoke the idea of celular division, with the Scandinavian-style seats, backs, and legs seeming to separate. The reclining armchar pursues the same concepts, but on the contrary joins the seat with the rest, in a play of symmetries.