Concrete Canvas Bench Medusa by Erasmus Scherjon

Concrete Canvas Bench Medusa by Erasmus Scherjon 1

Concrete Canvas Bench Medusa by Erasmus Scherjon 2

Young Dutch designer Erasmus Scherjon who graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven last year with this chair as a graduation project has named it Bench Medusa.

This outdoor two-seater bench looks soft, but is hard as a rock.
I used materials with unexpected qualities to create a new vocabulary of forms.
The bench is made of a steel frame covered with Concrete Canvas,
a cement-filled nylon fabric.
In Medusa I have fused steel and cement by dipping the bench in water,
after which the upholstery has turned into rock-hard concrete and the bench had petrified,
without losing its textile appearance and tactility.

Making-of-the-Concrete-Canvas-BenchMedusa-by-Erasmus-Scherjon

This photo shows the creation process of the chair

More and more designs in the new material Concrete Canvas are filtering through nowadays, but Erasmus was one of the first. And: Yes! Julia’s Stitched Stool Post inspired me to finish this one which was on my back burner for quite some time already.

Update:

And here a photo that proves Medusa was part of the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show:
Medusa at the Design Academy Graduation show 2010

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on August 21, 2011 at 11:01 AM

Inception Chair by Vivian Chiu

The Inception Chair by Vivian Chiu has an interesting infinite look when viewed from certain angles – this effect is achieved by putting a chair within a chair that sits within another chair… times 10:

Each chair has hand cut grooves on the inside edges of its seat frame as well as notches in the seat back. These grooves range from 1/2” wide to 1/8” wide. The mechanism works so that the pegs fit into the grooves of the chair one size bigger and slides into place so that the horizontal edge between the chair seat and back line up. The simple mechanism allows the chairs to be taken apart and put together with ease.

Via design-milk.com

Hörnstol by Anton Björsing

Hörnstol by anton bjorsing
Found it via Moggit at Freshome, this around the corner chair Hörnstol by Swedish designer Anton Björsing.

The Sea Chair Project

The Sea Chair Project aims to solve the problem of plastic, one chair at a time. Creative minds behind the idea, Azusa Murakami, Alexander Groves & Kieran Jones, made a machine that collects and processes the plastic from marine debris, and are now looking for funding to turn a small fishing trawler into a fully functioning chair making factory – you can help by voting for them here.

From the creators:

“The Sea Chair is a project whereby we hope to collect the considerable volume of micro plastic that pollutes our seas and turn this waste into locally produced sea chairs.

We hope to do this with the help of Britain’s declining fishing fleet, by turning one Cornish fishing boat into a fully functioning plastic chair factory. Having been short-listed for the Victorinox 2011 Time-to-care award, we hope to secure enough funding to sail this boat across the open oceans fabricating chairs along the way.”

The Sea Chair Project will be exhibiting at The Dublin Science Gallery at the end of the year, and the series of chairs produced are to be exhibited at Milan 2012.

Segment: Modular Communication Solution by Noam Fass

First there was a TweetingSeat, now there is another attempt at creating a seating system that keeps you connected. Segment is a modular communication solution in which seats can be connected to one another to create different combinations depending on your needs, and each segment of the seating system has a USB port to keep you connected at all times.

Segment has three main modes (and can even become a sofa):

  1. Chaise mode, which allows for full interaction with laptop/tablet/smartphone;
  2. Seat mode – interaction with another person with laptop/tablet/smartphone;
  3. Social mode – interaction between up to four people.

Via design-milk.com