Soft Heart
by Ron Arad, 1991
Designed by Ron Arad for Moroso in 1991, it is a rocking chair shaped like a heart, a piece of furniture-sculpture that can be used both as a seat and as pure decoration. His line, as for the drawings of Matisse, outlines an elementary form that, by its very nature, requires the use of pure and bright primary colors.
Ironic and subtly irreverent, Soft Heart is part of the Spring Collection, first collaboration between Moroso and the designer who filmed, making them soft, some of his most famous works up to that time made mainly in steel and diffused on the circuit of design galleries in London.
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Soft Heart was the first Moroso product to use Divina fabric from Kvadrat, a choice dictated by the need to move away from traditional fabrics to obtain a homogeneous surface, Uniform and without direction consistent with the sculptural principle behind its creation. The Divina fabric has properties similar to felt; it is produced by weaving the yarn in a coarse linen tube wrap, then subjected to mechanical processing at very high temperatures, simultaneously with coloring.
Divina 3 – 0623 Red (A0867)
Divina 3 – 0782 Blue (A0869)
Divina 3 – 0636 Magenta (A0927)
Divina 3 – 0922 Green (A0872)
Divina 3 is a fabric produced by Kvadrat; check availability with your retailer. The use of other fabrics is permitted subject to technical verification by the holding.
Soft Heart is not removable.
Internal structure in steel and soft polyurethane foam coated with a polyester fiber fabric.
Inspirations
Ron Arad
Since the 1980s, his work has been provocatively at the border between sculpture, architecture and industrial design, with an incessant creative process able to mix artisanal techniques and advanced industrial technologies. The expressionistic use of metals such as steel and aluminium, in the meeting with Moroso, resulted in morphological experiments in the field of padding that gave rise to products that have become design icons, such as Spring Collection (1991) and Misfits (2007).
Many of his works are on display in the permanent collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.
