Pleats-Pleats is a sofa where precision steel meets handicrafts. Take a seat in a weave of clothed polyurethane foam, that wraps around a white powder coated steel pipe frame in a macramé style. Design: Daniel Hedner, Imaginary Office 2009.

Daniel Hedner founded the company in 2008 with the ambition to act as a playground for new ideas and to creatively explore design, form, architecture and materials.The goal with their design is to use simple materials in unexpected combinations and dimensions to provide it with a unique and strong identity. Shiny, matt, hard and cold, contrasting with soft, billowing and warm.

To be honest Imaginary Office is a company of three brothers (Daniel Hedner, Jesper Hedner & Karl Sandoval). One company. Siblingship in the design- and architecture spheres is not uncommon and for brotherhood they’re in good company with Campana’s and Bouroullec’s to name a few. Born Hedner, the middle one is now Sandoval after having picked up his wife’s name.

This sofa is from the Greenhouse young designers’ showcase at Stockholm Furniture Fair earlier this month.