Chopin
"The character and quality of contemporary interiors are often determined by a single element. It can be a piece of furniture, a work of art, or another accessory. However, it needs to attract attention, inspire admiration and set the ambience of the surroundings. This is exactly what Chopin does. It always comes to the fore. It is impossible to ignore. Distinctive and prestigious, it creates a powerful accent in the interior. Wherever it is placed, it will never recede to the background. "
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| Use | sofa for home interiors and public spaces, comprising two independent seats connected with a magnet |
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| Structure | softwood and plywood |
| Seat | upholstery belts, highly elastic foam |
| Backrest | webbing straps, high-resilience foam |
| Loose cushions | high-resilience foam |
| Base | plastic glides; smaller seat equipped with a pulled out steel element that stabilises the sofa |
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Genesis and inspirations
Chopin is formed of two separate items of furniture: an armchair and a chaise longue, held together with powerful magnets.
The name Chopin was chosen to emphasise the reference made by its asymmetrical form to a grand piano, the pianist’s iconic monument in Warsaw’s Royal Baths Park, and his famous hairstyle.
The Chopin sofa was created as a design submitted to the Future Classics competition, organised by Comforty in 2009. Still at an early stage of his career, Tomek Rygalik was one of the young-generation designers invited to participate.
Although his design was not awarded in the competition, it became part of Comforty’s core collection owing to the unique and unconventional way in which it addressed culture and heritage. Chopin demonstrated that, aside from form and function, the iconicity and timelessness of an item of furniture is also achieved through another important factor: the cultural context. And for a brand with such powerful ties with Warsaw, a reference to the phenomenon of Frederic Chopin, one of the most renowned Varsovians, seems perfectly natural. Chopin’s entire oeuvre, turbulent and marked by the experiences of the composer’s life, expresses the spirit of an era of change, an enormous transformation occurring in music, culture and the entire European civilisation of the Romantic era.
For Comforty, which launched a far-reaching transformation process exactly in 2008, the form of the Chopin sofa articulated the spirit of the change powerfully embraced by the brand’s collection and philosophy.
The sculptural quality and transformative character of this design was and remains outstandingly attractive. The development of this product during that significant period in the brand’s history acquired a symbolic and nostalgic meaning. But regardless of the circumstances of its creation, the form of the Chopin sofa remains insensitive to the passage of time, it does not become anachronic and loses nothing of its value. In the course of the years, the product was slightly altered and improved, but its iconic silhouette has remained the same.
In 2008, free-and-easy references to Classicism – to the emblematic asymmetrical leisure furniture from that era – ushered in the need to make room in our collection for such open-minded, Postmodernist statements and pursuits.
The traditional technology used surprisingly well articulates the demanding silhouette and upholstery details designed by Tomek Rygalik.
Chopin as the protagonist of the interior and one of the most distinctive items in our collection has found its home in numerous prestigious spaces. Filling us with a special sense of pride is the furnishing of the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw, where Chopin sofas are some of the few modern-day items of furniture that complement the interior designed by Bohdan Pniewski’s team during the post-war reconstruction of the opera house. It is an opera with one of the largest stages in the world, alongside the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The sofas are also part of the furnishings of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw and are distinguished with the official certificate of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, which allows for the use of this registered trademark only by products that meet superior quality standards.
