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Oru Chair by Chris Hardy

ORU is an easy, or low chair that derives a technical aesthetic from the materials and processes required for its manufacture. The simplicity of the design necessitated very careful attention to the visual balance of the individual components while not sacrificing the chair’s comfort.

Materials and finishes play a major role in the nature of the design. This version of Oru is made from sustainably managed plantation oak but it could also be constructed from 6mm 4068 aluminium (anodized or painted).

via Workshopped.

Chris Hardy exhibits a cantilevered chair design inspired by Breuer’s Cesca chair.
“This response to Powerhouse Museum’s Re-loved exhibition arose from looking at modernist attitudes to adopting new technologies in the early part of last century. Just like Breuer’s Cesca chair, one of the first cantilevered chairs brought about by the use of new fabrication techniques, this reinterpretation of the Cesca chair (a modernist classic) uses contemporary generative techniques and rapid prototyping technology as an homage to modernism.”

“The generative method used is voronoi subdivision of a point cloud. This enabled further meaning to be built into the chair by using an image of the chair’s creator to influence the point cloud – Breuer becomes a ghost in the chair. The technology used to build the chair was selective laser sintering (Shapeways). This was used based on its strength characteristics and its ability to be formed quickly and easily based on the quite complex geometry.”

via Mocoloco.