Boa Sofa

Campana Brothers “Boa” Sofa Brazilian design for Edra - 2002 

Boa Sofa designed by Brazillian duo Fernando and Humberto Campana (Campana Brothers) for Italian furniture company Edra. A very representative example of the creativity of the Campana Brothers.

A rare, unique, and cosy lounge seating sofa piece inspired by Brazilian’s culture. Experience extreme comfort as you fall into the soft weaves of the Boa sofa. This eye-catching piece is made from 100 meters of velvet tubes. Art Lab offers a high quality reproduction of this iconic piece.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Softly woven, it resembles a large nest that also holds many people?

Lying down, sitting or curled up - who can also crawl

inside the weave to feel even more protected. With no frame, it consists of 90 metres of tubular velvet filled with flexib

le and breathable polyurethane chips, knotted with extreme manual expertise to form a large irregular weave. Upholstery in velvet only.

Dimensions: 300x160x65cm

Designed by: Campana Brothers

Manufactured by: Edra

The Boa sofa is like a large, soft woven nest allowing you to explore reclining in a number of different ways - sit on it, lie down, curl up, or even lie within its tubular tangle of cushions.  Boa's profoundly unique form is composed of 100+ meters of tubular velvet that has been filled with polyurethane chips and goose down.  With no frame, Boa is expertly "knotted together" by four craftsmen that work together with great synergy and precision to create its large woven form.  Boa is available in two sizes and in different velvet colors - all interact with light in different and remarkable ways.  Manufactured by Edra.

Designed in 2002.

Small:  118.1" W, 63" D, 25.6" H

Large:  139.8" W, 74.8" D, 25.6" H

Seat Height:  13.3"

Boa Sofa by Brazillian duo Fernando and Humberto Campana (Campana Brothers) for Italian manufacturing company Edra.

An excellent example of the creative talents of the Campana Brothers. The Boa sofa, a woven nest constructed of 120 meters of polyurethane and goose feather tubing covered in green velvet. The version is the largest size. A rare, stunning, and multifunctional lounge seating sofa piece.

The Campana Brothers are among Brazil’s foremost contemporary furniture designers. Inspired by their country’s vernacular culture, Humberto and Fernando Campana combine everyday objects in unexpected ways, often waste materials like rope, cardboard, plastic tubing, and aluminum wire, to make their singular creations. Their designs have been manufactured by such companies as Alessi, Swarovski and Cappellini. And they have received numerous honors, including being named Designer of the Year both at Design Miami in 2008, and by Maison & Objet in Paris in 2012. Humberto Campana was born in Rio Claro in 1953 and earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of São Paulo. Fernando was born in 1961 in Brotas, and graduated from the São Paulo School of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. The brothers started working together in 1983, crafting furniture using their signature method of adaptive reuse. Their pieces frequently refer to Brazilian social and cultural traditions and entities. Among these are the country’s favelas, or shantytowns, that have grown up around major cities. An homage to the resourcefulness with which the residents of São Paulo’s favelas make use of the materials at hand, repurposing cast-off objects in ingenious designs and constructions, their Favela armchair is made of cast-off strips of wood (the first one was made from discarded slats from a fruit market), which are glued and nailed together seemingly at random. The end result, however, is a compact, solid and well-proportioned chair.By 1997, some of the Campanas’ pieces were being produced and sold in Italy, including the Edra Vermelha armchair, constructed of cord handwoven around a steel frame. In 1998, the brothers became the first Brazilian designers to have their work exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today their furniture is included in MoMA’s permanent collection and in those of numerous other major institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Vitra Design Museum.