Design Secrets: Furniture

Asked by Modus to design a seating system for the contract mar-

ket, Soudeau started working with a leg he’d originally envisioned

for a chair. This strange silhouette was inspired by an equally

odd source. “There’s a route I take quite often coming to work,”

Soudeau explains. “And there’s this road sign in Camden that

shows the direction the roads go when they split. It was some-

thing I registered subconsciously and then turned into something

three dimensional.”

When he began reviewing the brief from Modus, Sodeau also

found himself “. . . thinking on a grand scale, about seating hun-

dreds of people.” He then stepped back a bit farther, and started ...