This year, their result focuses less on such experimental extremes and more on a design intervention into the production process. In collaboration with B&B, they have created the Hive pouf, the fruit of their development and intelligent application of leather to the creation of seating.

Atelier Oï have conserved leather offcuts that would otherwise be discarded, and reintroduced them to the production cycle in the form of small petals, assembled in a specific pattern to create the hexagonal seat of the pouf. The new texture is simple and repetitive, yet striking; the weave is highlighted in the showroom’s fabric backdrop for the poufs, which come in polished or matt versions.