Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced
Product Name
Na Pali | Sofa, Armchair, Tables
Manufacturer
INSIDHERLAND
Manufactured
Portugal
Sofas
Other - sofas
Tables
Coffee tables

With giant cliffs over the Pacific as huge stone sharp needles stretching in height and plunging into the ocean between mystical sea caves and scalloped beaches, Na Pali Coast is a place almost inaccessible, surrounded by many inspiring legends. Hawaiian legend tells that Pele, goddess of fire, went to Na Pali in search of a home but her sister and rival, Namakaokaha'i, goddess of the sea, drove her away in a violent confrontation whose marks remained visible forever. Protected between Na Pali ribbed walls is Honopū valley that seems to form a seat on the mountain, in which the gods can sit back and admire the constant battle sbetween the natural World.


Mother Nature carved a paradise called Na Pali located on Kaua'i, an island remnant from the force of a volcano with five million years with its profile drawn by rain and the blasts of winter waves against the basalt cliffs. Spectacular, imposing and lush, Na Pali that means "the cliffs", is a breathtaking landscape. With a strong presence, the handmade Na Pali chair portrays in detail the mystique of this dramatic backdrop of verdant valleys, striated walls and sharp ridges. The image of this fortress coast is captured by wooden sides extending as cliffs from the bottom to the top and the front feet get the form of the numerous sculpted needles across the landscape. Na Pali is a piece that challenges the viewer to discover its sharp cuts and grooves extending continuously around, made by a handcrafted work in velvet which combines the variations of the vast range of Na Pali Coast colors resulting from the change of direction of the rays of the sun, the movement of clouds and the ocean color. The comfort of the armchair Na Pali is deeply connected with the features of striated mountains, sharp ridges, deep valleys and furrows dug by dizzying tropical waterfalls, so that humans may sit like gods on the towering cliffs


PRODUCT DETAILS


Sofa & Armchair: Upholstery: velvet. Legs and sides: wood structure finished in walnut veneer in half gloss varnish.


Tables: Top: glass Base: wood structure finished in walnut veneer in half gloss varnish. Rings in oxidized brushed brass.

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