Folding Chair Looks Curved, Packs Flat

dornob — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:51 +0000

It looks like a complex sculpture from custom-cut sticks, but the nest-like assembly of this transforming pop up chair packs flat and folds out from a simple straight sheet of pre-sliced wood.

The illusion of three-dimensional complexity comes from implied curves created from a series of metal-hinged, interlocking rectilinear sticks, all intersecting and overlapping to give the impression of an overall smooth shape.

Robert van Embricqs departs from both the boring seat-and-legs approach to chair design but also from the ever-trendier cut-out-and-assemble approach slowly becoming mainstream as well. Sure, there are some sharp edges to be dealt with in a finished-product version, but for now the concept seems more than sufficient to impress.

“The Rising Chair emphasize the natural shape an object can made by transforming itself. Every piece of the chair has his own task to succeed in this transformation. It’s very easy to gather a huge collection of different chairs and throughout the years there has been a staggering abundance of them, in all shapes and sizes. But what was fascinating during the research was a simple question: to what degree is the object you’re creating capable of dictating its own design? Is it even possible for an object to ‘tell’ for which form its best suited? And if so, what will the end result be?”

“Following this train of thought led me to discover several interesting options to create a new kind of chair. The foundation of any chair is the flat surface you’ll eventually sit down on. Using this notion as a starting point, several cuts were made in the flat surface and pulled up the different beam-like strands of cut surface. This created the preliminary but already distinct features of any chair: back, seat and legs. The rhythm of the wooden beams gives the chair an organic shape. The cuts are most visible when the chair is still down. But at that stage of the construction, it was still not clear what shape the chair would take in the end. This was determined by the various arches of the wooden beams the chair is made of. Folding the chair into its definitive form, as a creator, a special connection to the material was born.”

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