by Rebecca Walker — September 25, 2009—Two Canadian design and manufacturing firms have pooled their talents to develop a seating solution that challenges design precepts.
Arconas, a leader in seating design and engineering, and Joel Berman Glass Studios, renowned designer and manufacturer of decorative glass for architecture and design, collaborated to develop an unconventional seating product that showcases each company’s unique strengths.
The essence of the design is Arconas’ Award-winning Bern seating line, a sleek unit featuring aeronautical shapes and an innovative peg construction system by Canadian Industrial Designer, Davide Tonizzo.
Typically such seats are upholstered, or finished in epoxy-coated steel or polished aluminum. Bern Ice features seats and backs made from translucent resin cast in Berman’s Valencia texture. Glasslike in appearance, the surface-embossed resin combined with the dynamic, curvilinear metallic shapes of the Bern structure lend a jewelry-like quality to the overall design.
For more information, see the Arconas Web site.
