Designer Martin Szekely creates a paradoxical new range of outdoor furniture for French manufacturer Tectona – called ‘Soleil’, it is as much about shadow as it is about light
We last saw Martin Szekely at the Louvre, for which he had designed a range of seating, announced in 2021. While the benches for public use were finished in leather, the other pieces in the collection soberly highlighted their pure lines in nude oak multi-ply, with grain and layering made manifest at the edge.
This time he has chosen larch, which represents a small revolution for Tectona, a manufacturer known for its products in teak. Just as resistant, larch has the huge advantage of not being an endangered species. 'Larch comes from our regions,' explains Szekely. 'It turns silver-grey when it comes into contact with precipitation and is a rot-proof species, so therefore durable. Above all, it is very beautiful and soft to the touch.
The tactility of larch has here been augmented by the very particular way in which the wood has been cut, allowing the hand to slide along its curves despite the hollows that pit the surface here and there. Multiple prototypes were required to reach the desired perfection of assembly, which was achieved using a digitally controlled tool. Only in this way could Szekely obtain the subtle play of sunlight passing through each piece to draw all sorts of shapes on the ground.
'It wasn’t so much the form of the object that was important but rather the effects of light falling on it,' he explains. 'The shadows it casts are constantly changing with the course of the sun.
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