Bean bag TUBE - Lithuanian passion, Italian design!

The story of TUBE have started when Remigijus Balciunas, CEO of Lithuanian brand SLOWDOWN was visiting a design fair in Stockholm and met Francesco Costacurta there. Francesco – Italian product designer from freelance designer group called “Why Not”, based in Milan area. 

Bean bag Tube, Fabric Riviera Collection 

Remigijus and Francesco developed a conversation about their professional lives. Furthermore, they have noticed that most of the bean bags have a shape that is not very defined and designed, due to soft materials. Also, most of the bean bags are one-colored because the fabric pieces are sewed in a way that does not permit an elegant combination of different colors or fabric textures. Thus, they decided to work together. 

For this project Francesco Costacurta collaborated with Juste Pavasaryte, who is a Lithuanian product designer born in Kaunas, currently working in Italy. 

Bean bag Tube, Bean bag Soft Table Fabric Riviera Collection 

They had a goal to create a shape of the bean bag that is well defined and controlled. They wanted to find the element that would make the product recognizable and unique, but pleasant and neutral at the same time. 

Bean bag Tube, Fabric Sideway Collection 

Italian designer Francesco Costacurta and Lithuanian designer Juste Pavasaryte combined their thoughts and created a simple, but beautiful composition of colors and texture which can be used not only for outdoor but indoor as well. Together they developed the ideal comfort and style bean bag called TUBE for brand SLOWDOWN. TUBE – a new generation of sitting bags!

Bean bag Tube, Fabric Nordic Collection 

TUBE offers:

• significant change that stands out and offers benefit not only from a formal – aesthetic point of view,
• but also functionality;
• a form that is recognizable and characteristic; 
• a form that allows better control of the product’s shape; 
• a shape of elliptic tube that was cut in diagonally and combined again; 
• combination of these two parts that creates a stylish, simple and geometric composition;
• more rigid backrest, providing more comfortable support for the back;
• an extremely comfortable seat not only to relax, but also to work or read.

Bean bag Tube, Fabric Nordic Collection

TUBE Technical data: 

• Hand made
• TUBE consist of two bags:
• an inner bag, which is filled with a bean bag filling, i. e. polystyrene (EPS) beads;
• an outside bag, which is easy to take off and wash or clean. 
• All inner bags have zippers, which enables the manufacturer to regulate the quantity of the filling that determines softness of the bean bag.
• Pulls of zippers are hidden under the seam of the cloth thus ensuring protection of the floor covering from damage.
• With the aim to prevent the fire risk, non-flammable granules that are certified as conforming DIN 4102 standard are used for TUBE bean bags.
• Soft woven labels are used for labelling TUBE bean bags.

Dimensions       

Length: 115 cm, Height: 80 cm, Width: 70 cm, Volume: 360 L

Bean bag Tube, Fabric OX Collection