Satyendra Pakhalé for Hästens

Product design

Satyendra Pakhalé translates the expertise that Hästens uses to make beds to create a new sofa which was launched in an installation during Stockholm Design Week.

By Editor Design.nl / 16-02-2010

Satyendra Pakhalé has created a new sofa for the Swedish bed manufacturer which adopts the same technology which is used to create their famous beds.

Like the beds, the two-seater sofa is hand crafted in Sweden from natural materials such as horsehair, cotton, flax, wool and pine. This is the first piece of furniture that Hästens has produced.

“I am very enthusiastic about this project. It is no traditional sofa, it’s a much more challenging process where I have been very truthful to the technical comfort of the bed. It is a conversation sofa, sophisticated and subtle with a comfortable feeling. The details make the product,” says Satyendra Pakhalé.

The prototype was launched during Stockholm Design Week in a specially designed installation in the Hästens store on Sveavägen featuring a selection of Pakhalé's works. The collaboration between Hästens and Satyendra Pakhalé first began on a project for Wallpaper* magazine.