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Bottomless Anti-Chair: Crafty Bentwood Form Frames Other Seats

24 Jun

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

chairless chair

As it stands, you can do just about anything with this Arm Chair except actually sit in it, at least until you add your own chair, stool or other form of seating to the mix.

bent chair stool casters

bent chair with office

Part artist statement, part conceptual and part physical framework, this absurdist anti-chair by Clark Bardsley is also a cunning and well-crafted exercise in traditional wood bending and shaping techniques.

no seat back chairs

bent chair in public

The steam bent, brush back sanded and oiled American Oak object represents an impressive execution of a notoriously difficult process made all the more complex within a seat and back to tie the piece together.

bent chair jig making

bent brushed sanded wood

The Auckland-based designer focused on materials and methods in this work, but while he may have failed to include that essential ingredient, which most would associate with chair-ness, the void he left also lets users fill empty space with other sorts of seats.

Office chairs on casters, plastic bucket chairs, metal stools … pretty much anything can be slotted into place as desired. At the same time, the wood frame gives the piece a recognizable outline and sense of comfortable familiarity.

bent chair front view

bent chair back view

As the artist puts it, “we structured our research around creating a beautifully finished object that pays heed to a classic bentwood chair, without posing it as a commercial product. Why shouldn’t research have a sense of humor?”

bent chair backward bucket

bent chair in nature

In a world where it seems like every type of chair possible has been designed (if not built), perhaps it is indeed time to make one simply with the goal of getting a good laugh.

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