Category: chairchez la femme

the lady seated in a chair or draped on a sofa

Beast by Neri Oxman

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Beast Lounge Chair Study

Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters with digital form-generation protocols. A single continuous surface, acting both as structure and as skin, is locally modulated for both structural support and corporeal aid. Beast combines structural, environmental, and corporeal performance by adapting its thickness, pattern density, stiffness, flexibility, and translucency to load, curvature, and skin-pressured areas respectively.

Neri Oxman

Architect and designer Neri Oxman is assistant professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Mediated Matter research group. Her group explores how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems.

And if you put it upside down we are at our usual quest again: Chairchez La Femme (look for the lady).

Via Neri Oxman.

Update

Just one day after this post Neri is featured in Arch Daily.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on July 19, 2012 at 4:47 PM

Chairchez the Toes

Chairchez the Toes

Chairchez the Toes

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Cross legged (by Simon Vogt)

(Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/plebism/5033466459/)

Hybrid No1 by Merve Kahraman

HYBRID is the “animalistic” collection by Merve Kahraman where a chair unites with its owner, merging into one. Hybrid No1 is an armchair with horns – it’s handmade and available in different types and colors of leather.

Merve Kahraman (born in 1987) studied Interior Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design(Milan/Italy) before moving to London. Since graduating, she has worked in several architecture and design studios in Istanbul, New York and London. Her decision to specialize in industrial design stems from her desire to include furniture and products as an integral part of her designs for spaces. Currently, she is continuing her masters education in Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London/UK) and working on her own industrial design projects.