The updated charcoal oak storage units establish continuity with the broader Hybla collection while integrating discreet functional features, including drawers, open compartments, USB connectivity, and integrated lighting options. Internally, the seating system combines differentiated-density polyurethane foam with highly elastic recycled polyester fibre, ensuring lasting comfort, structural resilience, and the preservation of its generous volumes over time. Hybla Soft transforms modular seating into an evolving architectural landscape where softness, flexibility, and material depth coexist with formal precision.
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Hybla Soft
Hybla Soft by Elisa Ossino evolves the architectural language of the original Hybla collection into a softer, freer, and more fluid modular system. While preserving the welcoming spirit and 1970s-inspired atmosphere of the original project, Hybla Soft introduces a more essential composition through the elimination of rigid structural elements and fixed back panels. The result is a seating landscape defined by openness, adaptability, and a more relaxed perception of space.
The system is characterized by generous upholstered volumes and sculptural proportions, softened further by the exclusive use of applied side armrests that reinforce its visual continuity. Modular flexibility becomes central to the project: inclined seat cushions generate subtle expansions and trapezoidal geometries that introduce rhythm, movement, and dynamic spatial relationships within the composition. Additional segmented elements and poufs expand the range of possible configurations, allowing the sofa to adapt naturally to contemporary living environments.
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Meet the designer
Elisa Ossino
Elisa Ossino is an architect and designer. Sicilian, she trained in Milan, where she studied at Politecnico di Milano. In 2006, she founded Elisa Ossino Studio, focusing on residential and retail interiors, product design, art direction and set design. Her work combines geometric abstraction, monochromes, metaphysical and surrealist references, creating a coherent and allusive relationship between light, objects and space, identified by the strong feature of her sign. To inspire Elisa’s compositional style is a figure of scenic suspension, recurring in the weightless design
of each intervention. Essential lines and geometries are the distinctive features of her design designs, giving to the space they are located in a deep scenographic feeling.
Her works have been published in Italy and abroad and exhibited in prestigious locations and galleries. In 2016, some of her design projects were exhibited at “W-Women in Italian Design” for the 9th edition of the Triennale Design Museum. Over the years she has received several national and international awards including the EDIDA 2020 – Elle Deco International Awards – with Balnea designed for Salvatori winning ‘Best bathroom’; in 2019 and 2020 she was included among the ‘Top 100 Interior Designers of the year’ by AD.
Next to her Studio activity, Elisa Ossino pursues a research that brought her to create together with other partners, in 2004, a kids design brand, Nume, for which she designed the furniture collection. In 2010, she set up with others Officina Temporanea, a project that connects design and artistic expression, identifying social issues as one of the main areas of interest. In 2019 she co-founded H+O, a brand dedicated to surface design, exhibitions and multidisciplinary installations that explore new languages for interiors and contemporary lifestyles. The same year she inaugurated the apartment gallery located in the historic Brera district of Milan.
Since 2016 she has been teaching at the IUAV University of Venice in the Master “Interactive Media for Interior Design”. Among the directions that she has recently impressed on her work lies a renovated interest for visual arts and multimedias’ potential linguistics.
A modular sofa system where sculptural softness and fluid geometries create a flexible and contemporary living landscape.
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