D&D

Design Furniture Made in Flanders

In the nineties, Deforce came out with a new series of design furniture conceived as an ambitious total concept. With a collection of cabinets, tables, wall furniture, chairs, coffee tables and small furniture, the customer could put together his own interior. For this new collection Deforce worked together with the furniture factory Meubelen Devriese from Hertsberge, under the logo D&D Design Furniture Made in Flanders. Devriese known for decades for making the frames for benches and chairs for the production of all Durlet carcasses, stood for high quality and finish off the new collection.

‘Near my tree I lived happily, I should never have left my tree’, quote by the French songwriter Georges Brassens stood for Deforces vision to take up sustainability, craftsmanship and the skillful processing of wood, top leather, and other natural materials into a design object that could be called ‘worthy of a tree’.

The D&D collection was stylistically related to the typical eclectic postmodern style of the nineties that was sweeping across Europe. The design language of the furniture had to be playful, frivolous and at the same time sustainable and classic. Some furnitures refer in their shape to icons of Italian mid-20th century design. As such a nod to the works of Ettore Sottssas is more than obvious. The side board Fiamingi shows an unmistakable tribute to the famous sixties sideboard of Giovanni Michelucci’s Torbecchia.

Other designs resemble conceptual remakes and show interesting references to or a playful use of the formal language of classicist 18th-century furniture (Pas de Deux chair), the Flemish monastic style (Fiamingi series) and even the exotic Japanese zen-style, as we find in some of the low coffee tables.