GRADO BET-ON: Versatilist Improvisation Survives Spatial Efficiency Competition

Versatilists stand out from formative design competition by enabling creative potential self-generated through improvisations reminds the COLLAGE SERIES by GRADO, which gains inspiration from post-constructivists’ art creations, of which rich material and color schemes diversify interior textures layer by layer. The Collage series is also characterized by multiple assembly styles allowing meandering stage walks across office, commercial, and residential spaces to try out various combinations. However, little speaks to the normally discussed Chiar&Table that could be flexibly arranged into a dot pattern for easy mobility on swiveling wheels. Instead, we find the Sofa&Screen contributes the most in realizing spatial freestyle by zoning the open floor. We therefore redefine their importance following the Modo and Flow sofa and the Modo, Cosy, and Walker screens.

The flow sofa modules connect each other, developing into the body of a train figuratively, allowing limitless extension horizontally in all directions, mounting up to the existing 10 basic combination styles for selection, yet no doubt predominating the reception area from both macro and micro perspectives. A quality consumer good on production may also have to consider expected service longevity and usage methods. More than a few methods of use in some way prolong service time and use efficiency, becoming important parameters in thinking about the cost-effectiveness of a product. Meanwhile, gross lightweight and edge curves further make the bulk easy for relocation throughout modules’ breakdown, movement, and re-connection.

Compared with the Flow series, the Modo series including the sofa, sofa S, and semi-closed pod sofa allows more versatility as one of Grado’s module-based combinations. The modules’ straight alignment at the edge of the interior takes advantage of its squareness despite facing inward or outward at different angles. The seat of the Modo is tougher and harder-core than the Flow but has a higher capacity for the school’s training sessions or office meetings. With as many modules added on as possible, the whole combinations can be shaped into all styles meandering along the whole space. The Cosy Screen helps create the turns and folds to mark out privacy areas. The Walker Workstation and Cosy Screen’s easy mobility complement the Modo sofa’s stability.

#Singapore 大华银行 ’s interior makeover, including the banking business introduction and VIP guest reception area, features the double-sided Walker screen, which supports whiteboard writing and media connection for remote meetings. The Walker poufs take a step up on the storage shelf set around the place. UOB in advance overwhelms the interior all in blue, yet with the Walker optionally colored in yellow & red or blue & grey. The technical supplements to the Walker screen suites, involving the Walker storage shelf, Modo screen, and Cosy screen series, are suggested to mark off the activity area.

The semi-enveloped sofa system integrates all previous modules freely, such as the Modo sofa, Modo screen, and another accessory like the Ray coffee table in the middle. Nonetheless, overall, it initiates from the Screen series, which decides the scope of arrangements. The row of Modo phone booths mounted up to the segmented interior wall, paired up with the barstools, makes it half open to the public view. The Modo sofa that sits next door provides a resting area for people in line. Besides the high-back Mart sofa’s back-to-back connection style, the Cosy pod sofas are linked more versatilely from all directions into continuous squares.