In elementary and elegant curved forms, the creamy-white body along with the bronze ovaloid legs presents a striking, yet captivating formal dichotomy: the lustrous shine of the bronze contrasting with the mattness and rawness of the high-end terrycloth fabric. Just as precious jewels, the legs were individually crafted from hand-sculpted and polished bronze, the result of a meticulous savoir-faire. Created in collaboration with Ateliers Jouffre, craftsmen upholsterers of French excellence, the chair combines traditional technical prowess while falling within a resolutely contemporary language. Vega’s inspiration for the fauna and flora is expressed here by the animal silhouette the armchair may recall as if it was simplified to its purest form.

Through Escales, Aro Vega aims to offer an unusual journey through the history of design by making the raw material of his creations the source for a reflection on the transformation and evolution of design. Thus, in a reverse chronology, from the current object to its original roots, Aro Vega seeks to bring out the rawest expression of his design pieces, revealing their purest material essence towards near sculptural abstraction. A quest for authenticity undertaken in a genuine contemporary language that allows the materials – bronze, brass, exotic wood, glass, silk – selected by Vega to exist for themselves, thus freed from their conventional functionality as furniture.

Just as the word Escales suggests, the series is fragmented into several halts, making Escales I the starting point of Vega’s stripping of the creation process. Bringing together four collectable designs available in a limited edition of 8. This initial phase is exploring the notion of reminiscence by engaging multiple influences inspired, amongst others, by fauna and flora as well as non-western traditional designs that fascinated the 19th century. Those influences, whose contours are not fully defined, provoke fragments of fuzzy souvenirs, an intuition without any identification, or at least the emergence of a feeling, however strange it may be.

Aro Vega explains: “I try to explore design as a support for a narrative process and as a vehicle for an emotion or a reflection. A feeling that comes from looking at the piece, practising it and walking around it. That the user thinks that the designer wanted to evoke something, even if he can't quite put the finger on it. To attempt this, I try to completely ignore the aesthetics and function of the piece of furniture to focus on that little strange something, which makes us ask "why is this piece like that". If this feeling appears, the function will reveal itself, and the aesthetics will follow naturally in one form or another.”