Carlos Zapata Studio /
Carlos Zapata
Carlos Zapata Studio /
Carlos Zapata
The Jumbo chair by Alberto Rosselli is an elegantly voluptuous object.
Because of its strong presence, we disregarded primary colours which would accentuate the visual weight of the object and distract from the object’s subtle contours.
Instead, we selected two groups of colours, night shades and day shades, and have intentionally paired one colour from each group to arrive at five distinctive combinations.
The pairing is important because the dark and light colours play off each other blurring the impact of the singular colour and letting the observer’s eyes concentrate on the object’s delicate proportions.
Carlos Zapata, founder and Design Principal of Carlos Zapata Studio, has amassed an extremely varied portfolio of award winning and internationally acclaimed projects.
During his career, Carlos Zapata has designed skyscrapers including the 68-story Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, which among other awards, was named one of the 20 most iconic skyscrapers in the world by CNN; multi-purpose arenas: the award winning 62,000 seat Chicago Bears Stadium; airport concourses: Concourse J at Miami International Airport, the recipient of the 2008 National AIA Merit Award, ultra luxury residential towers, including Turnberry Ocean Club
in Miami and Sculptura Ardmore in Singapore; hotels: Standard East in New York City and the award winning JW Marriott in Hanoi, and mixed use projects around the world.
He is currently designing projects in New York City, Miami, Las Vegas, Hanoi and Quito.
He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute in New York and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University in New York.
Saporiti Italia collaborated with Carlos Zapata on several projects, in the architectural field, as for the realization of the High-Tech Towers in Luanda and Ardmore Sculptura in Singapore, and for the creation of interiors, such as for the prestigious Villa JV in Quito, or finally for the design of furniture pieces, such as the CTZ table and the Frog-Leap benches.
click on each chair to see its details and color code