News & Events
SPRING SUMMARY
Design fair Maison&Objet in Paris
September 2010
Now is your opportunity to view our indoor Union Bench in person! Between 3rd September and 7th September this year, our 3-seater Union Bench will be on display at the Maison et Objet Exhibition in the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre. Our partners, Beau et Bien company will feature the Union Bench at their booth in HALL 7 – NOW! – N° i 155. Click here to view a map of the hall: http://www.maison-objet.com/medias/pdf/plan_mo_s10.pdf
Maison et Objet is a magnet for all design professionals interested in the latest talents and new concepts in the fields of design, fashion, home, object, tableware, and furniture. This show will feature a wide variety of designers, including international brands, young creators, publicists and more.
Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition center is located at: ZAC Paris Nord 2; 93420 Villepinte, Paris, France. For more specific information about attending this show, such as ticket info, directions, and parking, please visit www.maison-objet.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Union Bench From Above
August 2010
As proven from this Google Earth satellite image, the Union Bench stands out from the rest. These three outdoor 12-seaters placed in a centuries-old Scandinavian town square make a remarkable impression on the naked eye even from the clouds. Their impeccable design blends beautifully into an otherwise straight-angled area. This image is one more reason to abandon traditional bench design for our modern, organic shapes: The Union Bench is unmistakably exclusive. And it always will be.
2010 will be a fruitful year
April 2010
We are working hard on new designs. Stay tuned!
Design Meets Luxury – The Union Bench At Home In The Nordic Light Hotel
January 2010
The most recent copy of Nordic Life magazine features the Indoor Union Bench. Nordic Life is the official publication of the Nordic Light Hotel, one of Sweden’s most coveted and luxurious design hotels. Located in bustling downtown Stockholm, the Nordic Light Hotel is home to a number of the most creative and important Scandinavian designs, including our own Union Bench. Pages 2 and 3 of Nordic Life feature images of the Indoor Union Bench, sleek white fiberglass with sensual black leather seating, prominently displayed in Nordic Light’s hotel lobby.
AUTUMN SUMMARY
The Kennedy Family goes Union Bench
December 2009
The Union Bench has seized the attention of the design world in full force. The minimalist, rounded bench design that seats up to twelve people per bench has been serving clients world-wide, including Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, and Cape Town. It has even caught the attention of Bobby and Mary Richard Kennedy, who will be including our Union Products in their Kennedy Greenhouse Project, dedicated to highlighting the importance of living green.
eVolo Magazine
October 2009
In May 2009, the Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau’s Union Bench was featured in eVolo magazine, an architecture and design bi-yearly publication that focuses on technology advances, sustainability and innovative design for the 21st century. eVolo promotes and discusses the most progressive and avant-garde ideas from the schools and studios of the design world, and explores the future of design with up-to-date news, events, and projects.
Wool Seats
October 2009
Blending the historical northern European sense of pastoral beauty with Swedish minimalism heightens the aesthetic beauty of the piece. These loop-cut, high-quality Belgian carpet seats have a robust quality, and are a perfect contrast to the clean, smooth shape of the fiber glass. Comfortable and lovely to behold, these seat covers create an inviting warmth.
Colors are available in ivory, grey and lava
A top view of the warm wool’s rich, inviting texture.
Boat Deck Seats
October 2009
Give the Union Bench a nautical taste with our new boat deck seats. Combined with the fibre-glass material, these all wooden seats make the Union Benches suitable for placement at any harbor or pier.
See the Outdoor Union Bench Collection at the Rimini Fair in Italy
October 2009
Between October 8-10, the Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau teamed up with Pircher, its Italian distributors, and participated in the SUN International Exhibition of Outdoor Products – an international show dedicated to the professionals in the outdoor sector, in Rimini, Italy. The Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau exhibited its line of outdoor benches, generating a huge client base in the Italian market. We look forward to serving this client base with both our outdoor and indoor benches in the future.
Playsam Interview
October 2009
Feel free to enjoy the latest video from Playsam, the exclusive toy design company where Jangir Maddadi first began his design career. President of Playsam Carl Zedig is interviewed at his Union Desk.
SUMMER SUMMARY
Outdoor Union Bench Collection
August 2009
The Union Bench’s popularity around the world is evidenced by these images, taken by our italian distributors PIRCHER, in situ at Piazza Municipio in Brunico, Italy. They exhibit the design’s accessibility both to its users and its town planners. Notice how each configuration, size and color meld easily to the Italian piazza’s environment, allowing people to come and go as they please, in groups or individually, and enjoy whichever view they’d like.
Flower pots are utilized to perfection here, adding fresh greenery to the environment.
Note how the materials and colors of the bench are an unobtrusive and elegant addition to the scene.
New European Economy
August 2009
Jangir Maddadi was profiled in the Summer 2009 issue of New European Economy, a magazine which “provides in-depth coverage of strategic commercial management” as an emerging and fresh design company, devoted to enhancing the life-style of the individual through design.
CODE09
August 2009
In August, Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau participated in the CODE09 Copenhagen Design Fair, in which we exhibited our exclusive union bench and union desk to the designers and architects of both Scandinavia and the rest of the world. Photo: Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau
MODERN LUXURY
July 2009
Modern Luxury, a magazine devoted to sharing chic fashion trends and the latest in luxury design and lifestyle, features the Union Desk in its July/August 2009 issue. http://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=18667&p=51
WHITE IS FRESH
July 2009
With the union bench, choice is given to people. A white bench with white seats gives the ultra-clean, fresh look to any interior space. The black and white contrast can also bring a powerful freshness into a room as well. Photo: Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau
MATTE IS FLAWLESS
June 2009
The matte finish on the fiberglass base gives the union bench a softer edge, rounding out the contours so that it nearly fades into its environment. Photo: Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau
With its resistance to fingerprints, the matte color, “nextel,” is a perfect choice for spaces such as foyers and lobbies, drastically reducing clean-up.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR UNION BENCH
June 2009
We have been growing by leaps and bounds with product development. Now that we offer the indoor version in all RAL colors, excited clients are taking full advantage to customize the benches for their various projects. Not only that, but the availability of different colors in its hand-stiched, Scandinavian Elmo leather combined with the sleek, curvy, clean and organic lines of the bench bring a sense of sensuality to this remarkable piece. The freshness of smell, feel and look make it as attractive as it is functional. The below image shows different seat pad options. Photo: Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau
Available in all RAL colors.
PRODUCT UPDATE – FLOWER POT WITH IN THE 12 SEATER UNION BENCH
June 2009
One idea that we have been discussing is the use of the flower pot within the 12-seater (triple sphered) bench. This addition can be covered by a leather seat, or uncovered to function as a large flower pot, adhering to all great city-planners’ concept that all public planning must include greenery. Photo: Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau
The very first of this new combination will be exhibited in a Manhatten showroom in the coming months.
The hollow center of this bench may also be used as storage, and re-covered by its seat. The possibilities are endless – one idea was even to turn it into a fish tank and topped with a plexi-glass seat!
UNION BENCH ON UNION STREET
June 2009
We had a fresh start to summer, directly after midsummer, by delivering four freshly finished outdoor union benches to their locations in Kalmar – three in the courtyard across from the town library on Union Street, one outside the Kalmar Konst Museum (art museum). These images show the delicate process of loading and unloading the benches to their locations.
HOW THEY’RE TRANSPORTED
June 2009
The outdoor 12-seater union bench, weighing in at about 1300 kg, requires a truck with fork-lift and chain attachment capabilities. To load onto the truck, three chains are attached to each of the three sections of the bench. The bench is then lifted – very slowly – onto a wooden moving palette. After the benches are tightly secured to the palettes, a fork-lift gently lifts them onto the delivery truck.
Once the benches have reached their destination – in this case the courtyard and the Kalmar Konst Museum – a reverse process is used for unloading and placement. Benches are unloaded, strapped to the wooden palettes by forklift and then attached to three chains and placed according to the planner’s wish. Photo: Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau
It is easy to place the bench according to the planner’s wish.
Once the unloading process is completed all you need is to finish it with the wooden seats.
The three-bench design in the courtyard proved to be a lovely addition to that area, as the placements of all of them allows for both individual seating and group seating – the choice is up to the user.
The 8-seater (double sphered) union bench that now sits outside of the Kalmar Konst Museum is a perfect integration into that atmosphere. The black concrete of the bench fits well with the black color scheme of the museum, and the beautiful, organically moving serpentine lines of the bench make an excellent contrast to the strict linearity of the museum’s form.
ICFF – NEW YORK
May 2009
Since coming back from the ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) in New York, our company has been driving at full-speed with production, advertising and selling. Between the acclamation that we received at ICFF (one architect could said only one word: ‘Genius’), and the re-design of our website to show our product updates, we have been flooded with emails and phone calls of a number of international architect and design firms interested in using our union bench in their projects. It is has been a great start to the summer.
