Sunday, April 25, 2010

Fox & Freeze ff1 Chair

Belgium design duo James Van Vossel and Tom De Vrieze aka Fox & Freeze just released their first project. Its called the ff1 and it a lounge chair made out of a single sheet of synthetic felt. The design utilizes the whole piece of felt without any scrap pieces, except for the drilled out wholes for the flax ropes. The structure is self supporting and the rope keeps the chair together rather strongly, as illustrated in their video. The duo writes, "Starting from a square surface, the felt sheet is twisted and twisted again, jut like a scarf, ending in a symmetric and but also an asymmetric object, this is literally forms follows function." The felt is twisted in a very interesting way that is defiantly aesthetically pleasing from all angles. The chair is available for sale online for 275 euros.

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