Go With the Flow

Mark McMenamin -- Interior Design, 10/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

 

Interior designer, product designer, retailer. William Emmerson is a triple threat. But since launching his Ab Ova indoor-outdoor wooden seating, tables, and screen for Emmerson Troop, the British-born Angeleno has been concentrating on limited-edition furnishings. Futuristic silhouettes, which distinguish his first trio for Ralph Pucci International, reveal his philosophy that design "must work with the flow of life."

His space-age Spheriod, a 6-foot-high revolving seat that he calls a "microcosm of protection," is rotation-molded from recycled polyethylene, with a seat upholstered with Italian leather or fabric. The two other designs are vacuum-pressed plywood, lacquered in a choice of three standard colors. Slope, a 56-inch-long cocktail table, has a top that slopes up 3 ½ inches at either end. And the Ripple chaise longue is a "study in undulation," he says. "The lines finish in space, but the thought continues like a wave." Bar steel supports the cantilevered form. 212-633-0452; ralphpucci.net. circle 404