Given its form, mass, and other visual attributes, a product is a physical representation of a number of processes. Apart from the steps typically associated with the production line, its totality also bears symbolisms, aspirations, and emotions. Industrial designer Michael Dimou was inspired by the Côtés d’Armor, a coastal province in Northwestern France. “It was during the lockdown that I took notice of the place’s striking natural features,” he says. The many years of almost constant interaction among the elements—the sea, the wind, the rocks—prompted the designer to come up with an interpretation of this interplay that is current and fresh. À Moitié Plein features the organic formations of the cliffs encased in an equally graceful, almost visually fluid structure. Ocean breezes inspired the rising uneven ends, which also lend…
