Chair of the Day,Furniture | January 11, 20084 Comments
The Bone Chair is made of high polished, and silk polished aluminum
Chair of the Day: Bone Chair by Joris Laarman
The Bone Chair is made of high polished, and silk polished aluminumIsn’t this a cool chair? Designer Joris Larrman created it last year for droog. I love how he describes his work:
Trees have the ability to add material where strength it is needed. But bones also have the ability to take away material where it is not needed. With this knowledge the International Development Centre Adam Opel GmbH, a part of General Motors Engineering Europe created a dynamic digital tool to copy these ways of constructing used for optimizing car parts. In a way it quite precisely copies the way evolution constructs. I didn’t use it to create the next worlds perfect chair but as a high tech sculpting tool to create elegant shape with a kind of legitimacy. The chair is the first in a series and the process can be applied to any scale until architectural sizes in any material strength…
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4 Responses to “Chair of the Day: Bone Chair by Joris Laarman”
Avatars are randomly assigned unless you get your own
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Posted by Jennifer at Design Hole on January 11th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Poor you! I’d give you a hankie, but I think I used them all up myself. Maybe someone at GM will read this post and change the world. One can dream.
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Posted by Jurjen on January 19th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
joris is a he not a she.
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Posted by Jennifer at Design Hole on January 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Sorry! I made the change. But now I can’t remember why I drew that conclusion. I think I mixed up the photos I saw posted. Please extend my apologies to Joris.
Cool. Sort of organic steam punk? It makes me cry that GM has cool tools like that and fail to use them to make really amazing products.