Danish designer Hee Welling says that the idea of Auki came while he was playing in creating surfaces starting from geometric shapes: like origami, lifting up the corners of a flat surface, the result was a cocooning bowl.
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By defining then a central line shaped to welcome the human body, he came up with a lounge chair for LaPalma with a very simple aesthetic and high level of comfort.
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