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- I love the way it looks.. but I did not think about how it may feel.. It could be a MOMA piece tho..by poody
- Flat-Folding Chair Woodworking Template
https://store.bigguyinatinyhouse.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxizHEHY...
by bookofjoe - What an awesome website!
- It's cool but that rounded seat looks very uncomfortable. I could imagine it as a great item for a child's room though, if they could build it themselves from the flat sheet.by esperent
- It makes me appreciate even more the simplicity and affordable price of a folding chair.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/vihals-folding-chair-green-0059...
by y04nn - That looks awfully uncomfortable, I suspect that it will rapidly fall apart under stress and leave nice sharp splinters of fibreglass everywhere, including in your skin.by stoobs
- This person is very talented but that chair looks super uncomfortable. Resting you arms on those thin armrests will hurt within seconds. But that's exactly the type of furniture my mom loves :)by glimshe
- A lot of other modern furniture looks like it was just the default in CAD. Ie completely rectangular arm rests with sharp edges etc. I get that a car like Ford Sierra looked featureless and too simple in its time, I guess it seemed like lazy design. Where were all the trims and grilles and fenders and in general the "borders between things"? But I think it didn't hurt its usability.by Gravityloss
- I don't love it immediately, and yes, in fiberglass this chair doesnt sound too comfortable. But if it were made in leather, I could see it becoming very comfortable indeed, and the keather would also nod to the very obvious saddle shape.
(Always good to see common objects reimagined, even if they might not seem "right", they get a conversation started.)
by kjellsbells - Leather would not provide the tension needed for this. You'd need a core maybe of something else.by lopis
- I wish they had shown a real version of the chair with a real human sitting on it.by archerx
- I came here to post the same thing, this is the only thing that matters.
"I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive."
- Tyrell, Blade Runner 1982
by nntwozz - In the thumbnail concept sketch it shows someone sitting in it with their arm hanging over one of the “armrests”. What the sketch doesn’t convey is the blood flow to their arm being cut off.by nkrisc
- If it doesn’t give you Saturday night palsy it isn’t a chairby madaxe_again
- Non-curved model that can be made from a single piece of plywood:
https://store.bigguyinatinyhouse.com/products/flat-folding-c...
by bcraven - This should be the top response tbh.
- Fair play on increased simplicity but in the end this looks like a torture device or a toilet add-on for seniors.by behole
- Yup, that wins in simplicity, but a deckchair is almost as simple, and is a lot more comfortableby stoobs
- This looks impossibly uncomfortable though. The backrest looks like it's pushing you off the seat and the chairs legs look like they'd pin in your own. No thanks!!by jszymborski
- Since they rely on curves for the sitting surface, they should have done a proper saddle chair shape instead. The current design prioritize the manufacturer/corporation over the user/human. This is a failure on my book.by PetitPrince
- In my mind, the chair is meant to deform some, such that the curved seat gives a bit. But that might just be in my mindby jszymborski
- Indeed, looks super uncomfy.
And yeah, I helped a friend who's a furniture designer [1] for a few years.
After a while, when you 'beta test' pieces in development a lot, you understand that looks are great but comfort always wins.
by virtualritz