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dcwilson
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28/04/2008 4:57 am  

I am talking about the concept of a jointed chair that rolls up into a cylinder?

I strongly prefer this approach to a Rube Goldberg folding frame.

But I don't think jointed wood is the answer because of the complexity of manufacture and the required thickness.

If this could be made cost-effectively from thinner material and with a higher back, it would become the ultimate beach chair for millions.

A cylinder with about half that diameter would be ideal for slinging over one's shoulder.


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HPau
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28/04/2008 5:29 am  

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I bubbled over with excitement about this last week, I see it fully upholstered, exruded alumunium wedges ? Steel cable?
Amazing to do something so innovative with a cantilever.
Perhaps some sort of toungue and groove in the blocks? Without experiencing it in action its hard to say but could a jolt from the back cause it to collpase forward? I wonder.
I'd also like to see it as a park bench in solid timber.


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SDR
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28/04/2008 5:48 am  

I like this
too. Reminds me of that pedestrian bridge (in London ?) that Koen showed us a while back.
There were other clever pieces in that group. (Shouldn't this be on the adjustable furniture thread ?)


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william-holden-...
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28/04/2008 6:44 pm  

I saw this too--
Fantastic at first glance, but I immediately wonder if it can support a human body. Will it retain the chair shape if the sitter squirms? Seems to me that anything that can easily be rolled up, can easily do all sorts of unintended things.
I'd like to examine one, up close.


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NULL NULL
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29/04/2008 7:37 pm  

Interesting.....
This is a really nice idea; I assume that there is some sort of in of inextensible fabric on the tension side of all the bends and that the wood acts in compression. I expect that the wood is fairly dense as the compressive stresses will be high.Will the chair change shape as the humidity changes? I'll just nip off to my workshop and knock one up......


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