Bread Chair
MoCo Loco suggests that you check out Tokujin Yoshioka's latest chair. On his site (click on news), you can read up on his thought process and ideas behind the chair concept as well as how the chair was made. I love the photo sequence and how it tells the story, from the story at the beginning to the first chunk of fiber/foam to the detail shot of the fiber upclose. Anyway, his concept is about making a chair outta fibers so the weight is spread out throughout the entire structure, rather than the traditional say, wooden chair. The major difference is you end up with a chair which one can presume to be pretty lightweight, soft, yet firm enough to provide support. The final form probably doesnt look amazing but it is a tribute to the process and a statement of the technology and new method of manufacture, hence the rawness. Its also named after bread, for one its baked in a kiln and also how a bread is firm yet soft inside. The way the chair is made is kinda like bread. You introduce air into a structure to make it softer. Check out the pics of them "kneading" the chair into shape. I'm pretty certain each piece will not be entirely identical to another, which is all down to the handmade finish of the concept.
But please don't let me stop you from checking out more of his work like the Media Skin for au by KDDI or Stardust, the projector chandelier for Swarovski, just to mention a couple.
