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还有什么家具比沙发更能说明我们是谁！它通常是我们家里最大、最舒适、使用最多的家具，在空间和风格上都是客厅的支柱；它是我们放松和娱乐的最佳场所；它象征着我们的家庭活力和对家庭的热爱，象征着我们的品味和生活方式；换句话说，沙发是家庭生活的镜子。结合它们的寿命和成本，毫不牵强地说，制造一个好的沙发既是一种科学，也是一种艺术形式。 Is there another piece of furniture that makes a stronger statement about who we are and how we live than the sofa? Usually the largest, most comfortable and most used piece of furniture in our homes, it’s the living room’s anchor piece, both spatially and stylistically; it’s where we hang out, relax and entertain; it’s a token of our family dynamic and hosting sensibility, a symbol of our taste and lifestyle; in other words, the sofa is a mirror to our domestic life. In combination with their longevity and cost, it’s not farfetched to say that manufacturing a good sofa is as much a form of science as it is an art form. 
意大利沙发品牌Flexform为了了解生产优质沙发所需的条件，成功地将舒适性，质量，寿命和美学完美融合在一起。这是一家家族企业，在长达60年的品牌生涯中一直致力于沙发的设计和制造。该品牌以其永恒的优雅，“意大利制造”的工艺和无与伦比的舒适性而享誉国际，与知名设计师合作，一如既往地制作经典作品，其中最著名的是意大利建筑师Antonio Citterio，他为公司设计家具已有40年之久。 2021年是Flexform最畅销的Citterio组合沙发Groundpiece诞生20周年，现在是时候仔细研究该品牌持续生产优质沙发的独特能力。 In order to understand what it takes to produce a good sofa, one that successfully marries comfort, quality, longevity and aesthetics, look no further than Italian brand Flexform, a family-owned company that has been at the forefront of sofa design and manufacturing for over 60 years. Internationally renowned for its timeless elegance, ‘Made in Italy’ craftsmanship and unparalleled comfort, the brand has been consistently producing instant classics in collaboration with acclaimed designers, most notably Italian architect Antonio Citterio, who has been designing furniture for the company for four decades. With 2021 marking the 20-year anniversary of Groundpiece, Flexform’s best-selling sectional sofa by Citterio, we thought that this would be a good time to take a closer look at the brand’s unique ability to consistently produce great sofas. 
那么，制作一个出色的沙发又需要什么呢？首先，专业知识：Flexform的历史可以追溯到1959年，当时Romeo，Pietro和Agostino Galimberti兄弟在意大利北部米兰和科莫之间的制造区Brianza开设了第一家家具车间“ Flexform di Galimberti”，很快他们的沙发和扶手椅找到通往米兰豪华公寓和俯瞰科莫湖的别墅的方式。兄弟俩的商业成功最终导致车间转变为Meda的工业设施，该公司至今仍以该工厂为基地，其所有产品均为独家生产。自1967年取消家族名称以来，并与Joe Colombo，Asnago-Vender，Cini Boeri，Rodolfo Bonetto开拓意大利境外的新市场。 So what does it take to create an exceptional sofa? First of all, expertise: Flexform’s roots go back to 1959 when brothers Romeo, Pietro and Agostino Galimberti opened their first furniture workshop “Flexform di Galimberti” in Brianza, a manufacturing district located between Milan and Como in Northern Italy, their sofas and armchairs soon founding their way to stately apartments in Milan and villas overlooking Lake Como. The brothers’ commercial success eventually led to the transformation of the workshop into an industrial facility in Meda where the company is still based today, where all its products are exclusively manufactured. Having dropped the family name in 1967, Flexform embarked on reaching new markets beyond Italy’s borders, with a renewed focus on producing original, contemporary designs in collaboration with leading Italian designers like Joe Colombo, Asnago-Vender, Cini Boeri, Rodolfo Bonetto, and of course Antonio Citterio, who is intimately linked with the company’s global acclaim. 
这样的合作证明了创造真正卓越产品所必需的另一种品质：跳出原有框架思考。专业建筑师Citterio不只是设计沙发，他还重新发明了沙发。 Flexform组合沙发不仅是休息，看书或看电视的地方，还提供了一个工作和共进晚餐的功能。实际上，Citterio已将沙发作为主角，将其放置在客厅的中央，并由扶手椅，边桌和脚凳组成的一系列家具围绕着它，沙发，边桌和矮凳组成了一个“孤岛”。用他的话说。 Flexform组合沙发的设计可以从各个侧面观看，这并非巧合，沙发后部的工艺更是讲究，Cestone沙发其背面和侧面都装饰有编织的牛皮。 Such collaborations attest to another quality necessary in creating a truly remarkable product: thinking outside the box. Citterio, an architect by profession, didn’t just design sofas, he reinvented them. A Flexform sectional sofa is not just a place to rest, read or watch TV, it also provides a place to work and have dinner. In effect, Citterio has cast the sofa in the role of the protagonist, placing it in the center of the living room and surrounding it by an ecosystem of supporting actors like armchairs, side tables and ottomans that comprise a domestic refuge, an “island of emotional wellbeing” in his words. It’s no coincidence that Flexform’s sectional sofas are designed to be viewed from all sides, the backside often being more interesting than the front – just check out Cestone sofa’s whose back and sides are upholstered with woven strips of 
多功能性意味着舒适感将会大打折扣，这是完美沙发的另一项基本品质，也是Flexform擅长的。低而深的比例，加上大号鹅绒坐垫，它们模糊了沙发和沙发床之间的界限，体现了更多沙发设计的休闲方式。品牌标志性的Giorgio Morandi风格偏爱使用象牙色，暖灰色和香槟色。面料上使用亚麻，棉和羊绒，再加上抛光的金属，以及各类真皮皮革，进一步增强了品牌的舒适感，使任何客厅都轻盈，温暖和柔软。 Versatility means nothing without comfort, another essential quality of the perfect sofa, and one that Flexform excels in. Low and deep in proportions, with amply-sized, goose-down cushions, they blur the line between a sofa and a daybed embodying a more relaxed and casual approach to sofa design. Linen, cotton |
