Dutch designer Bram Geenen, an alumni of the industrial design faculty of Eindhoven Technical University was inspired by Gaudi for this design. Hence he coined the chair Gaudi Chair, but I do believe that is a misnomer: Gaudi’s style is much more Art Nouveau inspired than this stool.
However, it was the way Gaudi designed his architectural constructions that was Bram’s main inspiration: By making a model of hanging chains, gravity determined for Gaudi the strongest and most logical shape to withstand forces. Then he would turn the outcome upside down to create his structures and if you look at this photo you will see a cathedral like substructure of the stool.
The Stool and chair consist of a beautiful substructure of rapid prototyped polyamide which is covered by a very thin and light layer of carbon composite material.
For the chair Bram will use computer simulation to see if the computer agrees to what he applied intuitively for the stool design.
I do like the form and style tremendously, but hate to point out that the footprint of the stool is so wide it will stand in the way…but maybe it will be stackable…
Notwithstanding the wrong name, I do believe it will become an iconic design.
Via Crib Candy and Contemporist
Laisr is a design studio based in Basel, Switzerland. They specialize in producing furniture using a very non-traditional material, carbon fibre. This super strong and ultra light material is mainly used for engineering purposes, but Laisr has applied it to three chairs in their product line. the reason they use the material is because of its super strength. While most don’t like to think of carbon fibre as a green material, Laisr believes that because its durability makes it last so long, the required energy to manufacture it is justified. They also took the design of the chairs into consideration, creating sleek and, what they believe, to be timeless form.
Via Design Boom
Six Honeycomb Chair by Ian Giles Mason
'six' – architectural honeycomb seating 'six' is an architecturally inspired side chair that is manufactured from a specially produced honeycomb composite and 27 meters of 4mm steel wire. Shown here in chrome with clear panels, a wide variety of colour options for the frame and a selection of standard and metallic tints for the panels are possible. The chair also features a detachable light that illuminates the honeycomb seat, creating a funky and unique lighting effect for night time use. Designer: Ian Giles Mason (United Kingdom)
Via Design Spotter
autoclaved cellular concrete is a foamed concrete containing a high volume of air in a cell-like structure. the material is five times lighter than concrete, highly insulating and easily machined making it perfect for turning on a lathe;
Via DesignBoom
Added October 2009 :
This post is part of an experiment to automate the import of 20 of my prior Charblog | Tumblr tumblrings into this blog via Chairblog | Posterous which initially resulted in 20 posts without a title whereupon I had to edit it manually… Experiment failed:-)
