Lotus cat tree
A cat tree that grows from its box like a single bent stem. My first design to reach the market, and still on sale.
- Client
- The Refined Feline
- Year
- 2004
- Made at
- Freelance, Paris
- My role
- Product design
- Credits
- Images © The Refined Feline and Sébastien Maleville
The brief
Most cat trees are carpeted posts that end up hidden in a corner. The Refined Feline, a US maker of cat furniture, wanted one that people would be glad to keep in the living room.
What I decided
Four directions, one chosen. I drew stacking cubes, a red zigzag frame, a tower on steel posts, and a curved wooden column. The column went ahead.
One line from floor to top. A single bent wooden spine rises from a box the cat can hide in, carries two shelves on small brackets, and ends in a curved bed at the top. A scratching panel sits on the side of the box.
Ready to make. I worked out the drawings for production that autumn, and a shorter version, Little Lotus, followed from the same line.
What came of it
Lotus was my first design to reach the market. Twenty years on it is still on sale.
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