The ColourForm Sofa Group is the perfect expression of its designers' artistic process. Scholten and Baijings design and sculpt in pattern, texture, and color. They consider the play of light and shadow on innovative new textiles, and the geometry of forms that comfortably host a variety of human behaviors. The result of all of that thinking is a collection that builds hospitable lounge landscapes from a vocabulary of pieces that support the way people want to work and live today. Each piece of the collection can stand alone or work together to build privacy or community, work, play, or rest in public or residential spaces.

Color may be little more than how the human eye perceives varied wavelengths of light, but this belies the importance it plays in our lives. Some 30,000 years ago Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in the foothills of the Caucasus in Georgia were inspired to add a dash of color to spun and knotted flax fibers with natural dye—the earliest known example of such a textile. Six millennia back, the natives of Huaca Prieta, in what is now coastal Peru, devised the earliest known example of indigo-dyed fabric. As long as we have been making things, we've been coloring them, a feat no less astonishing today than it was 30,000 years ago.

The power of color in nature is not lost on Carole Baijings, one half of Amsterdam-based designers, Scholten & Baijings. "Even the brightest flowers are never vulgar," says Baijings, "there's a perfection there that we aim to achieve in our work." Throughout their career as industrial designers, Scholten & Baijings have proved themselves to be acutely sensitive colorists—devising a hands-on, process-oriented methodology to arrive at unique hues and fresh palettes.

Throughout their practice Scholten & Baijings emphasize multiplicity and combination with their designs. "We create all these options and possibilities because a product is produced and reproduced many times," notes Stefan Scholten, "we want to give a feeling to each one that it could be unique." "And while we want to leave those choices and possibilities to the consumer in the end," adds Baijings, "at the same time we like to show how it's nice to combine certain elements or selections to demonstrate how it all can work together."

The ColourForm Sofa Group is the perfect expression of its designers' artistic process. Scholten and Baijings design and sculpt in pattern, texture, and color. They consider the play of light and shadow on innovative new textiles, and the geometry of forms that comfortably host a variety of human behaviors. The result of all of that thinking is a collection that builds hospitable lounge landscapes from a vocabulary of pieces that support the way people want to work and live today. Each piece of the collection can stand alone or work together to build privacy or community, work, play, or rest in public or residential spaces.