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PetitPrince 8 hours ago [-]
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.
virtualritz 7 hours ago [-]
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.
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!!
munificent 3 hours ago [-]
Not super comfortable, but it has the advantage of being easily disassembled too. It's a folding chair, so you can stuff a stack of them in an attic and bring them out when you need to seat a bunch of people. Paculda's design looks like it makes shipping cheaper, but doesn't otherwise provide benefit.
stoobs 6 hours ago [-]
Yup, that wins in simplicity, but a deckchair is almost as simple, and is a lot more comfortable
northernsausage 6 hours ago [-]
This should be the top response tbh.
nkrisc 7 hours ago [-]
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.
madaxe_again 6 hours ago [-]
If it doesn’t give you Saturday night palsy it isn’t a chair
kjellsbells 7 hours ago [-]
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.)
lopis 6 hours ago [-]
Leather would not provide the tension needed for this. You'd need a core maybe of something else.
stronglikedan 41 minutes ago [-]
Ok, leather over carbon fiber, for the wealthy.
glimshe 8 hours ago [-]
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 :)
Gravityloss 8 hours ago [-]
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.
stoobs 6 hours ago [-]
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.
poody 6 hours ago [-]
I love the way it looks.. but I did not think about how it may feel.. It could be a MOMA piece tho..
layer8 3 hours ago [-]
At first it appears to be a single part, but it’s really four parts, plus twelve connector pins.
oliveiracwb 3 hours ago [-]
As publicidades que mais odeio: Internet (roubam sua privacidade, lateralizam seu pensamento).
Embalagens (prefiro as embalagens Dharma, militares e soviéticas: sem cores ou textura, so informações).
E de produtos: a mais pura inovação (o lixo da minha cidade é cheio de inovações).
A que mais vou odiar no futuro: as embutidas na IA.
esperent 10 hours ago [-]
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.
archerx 8 hours ago [-]
I wish they had shown a real version of the chair with a real human sitting on it.
nntwozz 7 hours ago [-]
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
QuantumNoodle 6 hours ago [-]
What an awesome website!
WalterGR 5 hours ago [-]
> Made from durable fiberglass panels
What sort of fiberglass bends as much as depicted without breaking?
Exoristos 2 hours ago [-]
Fiberglass can be made with all kinds if resins, including flexible ones.
poody 6 hours ago [-]
Come for the chair.. stay for the statues dressed in clothes.. made my day
kleiba2 8 hours ago [-]
Except that I just don't subscribe to the idea that flatpackedness should be the guiding principle of furniture design.
smusamashah 9 hours ago [-]
The screws on the bottom will be under lots of strain I imagine
rob74 9 hours ago [-]
Also, depending on how flexible the material is, it looks like those screws might scratch the floor on which the chair sits?
stavros 7 hours ago [-]
And, unfortunately, strain in the wrong direction, as the bottom plate will want to flatten out. It doesn't look like this chair will last more than a few days before dropping you on the screws.
meindnoch 8 hours ago [-]
Looks extremely uncomfortable and unstable.
conartist6 7 hours ago [-]
Nice tall backrest, angled inward so that only the top corner slices into your back and nothing else makes contact.
...Also I hope you don't have any bones in your butt
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.
[1] https://www.saschaulber.com/works/
https://store.bigguyinatinyhouse.com/products/flat-folding-c...
(Always good to see common objects reimagined, even if they might not seem "right", they get a conversation started.)
"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
What sort of fiberglass bends as much as depicted without breaking?
...Also I hope you don't have any bones in your butt
Thanks!