Sofas With A Tailored Elegance
Pauline Deltour’s stylized and tailored armchair Pauline, designed for Offect, is now joined by a 2- and 3-seater sofa.
“The sofas have an immediate simplicity that, on closer inspection, reveals a razor-sharp precision and finesse.”
Offecct’s Brand Manager Maria Olofsson Karemyr
Pauline Deltour’s and Offecct’s collaboration has previously resulted in the playful urban sound absorber Thelma and the elegant Pauline armchair. Now come the Pauline 2- and 3-seat sofas, which have the same stylized simplicity as the armchair with fabrics that are wrapped around it and create a tailored expression in combination with the functional and the rational.
Her entire collection is a response to how we live now, without adapting to short-term trends. New ways of working have given rise to new behaviours, whether we work from home or in the office, and office spaces will continue to change a lot. Pauline Deltour’s furniture helps us create the best solutions for the future and its needs.
Much of Pauline Deltour’s inspiration comes from her visits to factories and markets, books and hand-drawn sketches, travels and, not least, her own home environment in Paris. The colour choices are always of great importance throughout her design process, which is clearly visible in her collection for Offecct.
All of Pauline Deltour’s products have a kind of ingenious simplicity based on her eye for exquisite and carefully designed details. The new sofas, just like the armchair, have a natural elegance with small shifts in proportions, surprising lines and brilliant functional solutions.
While working on the new sofas, Pauline Deltour unexpectedly and tragically passed away. Maria Olofsson Karemyr is grateful that Offecct still got the opportunity to complete the project and bring Pauline Deltour’s sense of quality to the world.
Pauline Deltour was a warm and humble person, yet curious and with a clear idea of what she wanted with her professional life and her many projects. The new sofas are characterized by her ability to be visionary, creative and poetic, yet deeply rooted in the practical craft, the materials and the production process.
About Offecct Offecct is a Scandinavian furniture design company that develops unique furniture for inspiring meeting places in the home, office and public space. Together with selected architects and designers we offer innovative design on the planet’s terms with focus on people, architecture, high quality and sustainability. The company was founded in 1990 by Kurt Tingdal and Anders Englund and has a yearly revenue of SEK 150 million. 50% of Offecct’s sales comprise exports to more than 50 countries, and showrooms are situated in Stockholm and Gothenburg (SE), Oslo (NO), Copenhagen (DK), Milan (IT), London (UK), Rotterdam and Amsterdam (NL), Düsseldorf and Munich (DE), Zurich (CH), New York (US) and Singapore (SG), Sydney (AU), Bryssel (BE), Shanghai (CH) and Warzawa (PL). Since May 2017 Offecct has been a part of Flokk, an international group of companies with a focus on developing furniture for working places.
About Flokk Flokk is the market leader in the design, development and production of workplace furniture in Europe. Flokk is the proud owner of product brands HÅG, RBM, RH, BMA, Giroflex, Malmstolen, Offecct, Profim and 9to5 Seating. About 2 500 employees work together to realize the vision of the company: Inspire great work. Flokk’s head office is in Oslo, Norway and production units in Røros (Norway); in Los Angeles (United States); in Turek (Poland); in Guangdong (China) and in Nässjö (Sweden). In addition, Flokk keep sales offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, France, Switzerland, Dubai, Singapore, USA, China and Australia. Flokk products are sold in more than 50 countries. In 2018 the total turnover was close to NOK 3 billion.