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Drytech 3 Spacer Chair prototype by Next Architects

Drytech 3 Spacer Chair prototype by Next Architects.

Client: Droog Design
Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Samira Boon with Maria Salinas Moltó, Eve Arpo, Agathe Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo
Collaborator / associate: Studio Samira Boon
Material: fiberglass and nylon Spacer Fabric with polyester resin;
Build engineer: Müller textiles and Polyproducts
Construction: Textilemuseum Tilburg
Special thanks to: Prof. Adriaan Beukers, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Hybrids
Completion: September 2007

For the chair, we used a double weaving technique used in carpet production: two carpets are woven together and cut loose afterwards to create a velour side. This inspired us to design a chair along the same lines: two pieces of fabric are partly interwoven and partly cut loose. Cutting the fabric turns a two-dimensional cloth into a three-dimensional object.

The chair derives its strength form both the double fabric and the curves: hardening so-called ‘three-dimensional’ fabrics by means of resins gives them constructive qualities.

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Ripple Chair by Christian Flindt

Ripple Chair by Christian Flindt
At the Stockholm furniture fair 08 Danish company Paustian showed this Ripple Chair by Christian Flindt.
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Assorted Licorice inspired chair by Cecilia Olsson


The 2008 Stockholm furniture fair Greenhouse showcased work by some of the design schools from around Scandinavia: Among them this ‘Engelsk Konfekt’ or Assorted Licorice inspired chair by Cecilia Olsson

Via Design Boom

Wrinkle’s Beauty Chair by Diego Ramos and Luis Eslava

Tyvek World: The Wrinkle’s Beauty Chair by Diego Ramos and Luis Eslava

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Reversible Bikini Lounger by Wiel Arets for Gutzz

Bikini Chair
Bikini Chair by Wiel Arets
Bikini Chair in Black and in White
Bikini Chair in Black and white by Wiel Arets

About the Reversible Bikini Lounger

Apparently this is the first ever chair that Gutzz produces. The chair is yet in preproduction phase.

Gutzz Logo
Gutzz Claims:

A reversible reclining chair. It looks so simple, but crazily enough no one has ever thought of it before. Top architect and designer Wiel Arets together with Gutzz has managed to come up with a uniquely shaped chair on which you can lie on your back or on your front to sun yourself. Courage and innovative thinking have gone into this magnificently designed, extremely comfortable and ergonomic chaise longue upholstered in luxury fabric.

I dare to claim that there are more reversible designs around. See for instance the Chair 777.

About Wiel Arets

Wiel Arets
Wiel Arets

Born in The Netherlands in 1955. He established Wiel Arets Architect & Associates in Heerlen in 1984. He has held a number of academic positions. From 1988 to 1992 he was Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association London. From 1991 to 1994 he was Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. In 1992 he was visiting Professor at Cooper Union in New York. Furthermore from 1995 to 2002 he was dean of the Berlage Institute Rotterdam. Since 2004 he is professor at the University of Arts in Berlin. In the same year he established a second office in Amsterdam.

Among his most innovative projects are the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht and the University Library in Utrecht.

Via Dutch language Architecten Web.