Why metal and suede?
Where opposites meet. We never wanted to make furniture that always looks like everything else.
A little hard, a little soft
A little hard, a little soft. A little distant, a little inviting.
Something drew us to the space between the flawless surface of metal and the character of suede that makes you want to touch it. One catches the light, the other draws it in. One makes itself known wherever it stands, the other reveals itself as you come closer.
Perhaps that was exactly the point.
One catches the light, the other draws it in.
Furniture that leaves a feeling
We wanted furniture not only to look beautiful but to leave a feeling: the urge to touch a surface, to stop in a corner and look again, to remember years later why it is there.
So we brought metal and suede together.
The relationship between materials
Sometimes two things that seem deliberately mismatched complete each other when they meet. For us, design is partly about following that encounter.
At ciliza we don't only choose materials; we design the relationship between them. Because for us an object is not finished on the day it is made. It gathers its own story as it is lived with.
We don't design to match. We design to make a statement.
ciliza
Object of permanence.