Lotus Furniture Set

Lotus Furniture Set as its name implies, blossoms like a lotus flower, so it opens like a big hug to welcome the user.
The Lotus has lighting on the upper surface of the table and chairs, so when displaced each chair activates the lighting.

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i-Bum is the chair which creates embarrassments for its audience. Once a person sits on the chair, automatically the chair scans their bottom and prints out the image.

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Cardboard Furniture

Cardboard furniture by Henry Pilcher. Very nice. Liked the print at the side especially.

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“German designers Ottopal & Lottner Ltd present a play on proportions in their product line of light – space – object. The three objects: a chair in three sizes, or a table and two chairs, or a chair and two tables.”

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UrbanLounge

“… the lounge by the Chicago-based designer uses a single piece of bent plywood, which fits into the natural surroundings and forms an ergonomically pleasing seat. The construction requires no fasteners and creates very little wasted material, which adds to the beauty in the simplicity of the form.”

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“Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress slowly transforms into a chair with each step and holds the person to sit on it naturally. With his or her body weight the chair is slowly deflated and forms back to the original flat dress…”

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Curene Chair

A chair made of a combination of transparent plastic and wood.

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Carbon Fibre Chair

“Shigeru Ban conceived a light-weight chair that uses carbon fiber TENAX® for lightness and tensile strength. rather than using carbon fiber on its own, he created a tough structure by sandwiching aluminium between thin layers of carbon fiber. The use of aluminium in the combination eanbles successful pinpointing of the characteristics of carbon fiber.”

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Out-In High Easychair

High easychair by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet.  Monobloc in polyethylene with anodised aluminium tubular elements in silver, white or black anthracite colour or metalized silver grey painted. The chair is oversized, becoming a cocoon that envelopes the person sitting on it. 

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Bouquet

“… The Bouquet makes people who sit on it happy, just as a bouquet makes the person who receives it happy. The vibrant, delicate colours trigger different sensations in each of us.”

The chair “blooms” on a slim, chrome-metal stem that blossoms with white or delicately-coloured “petals” made of hand-folded fabric squares sewn one by one, to completely cover the internal surface of the egg-shaped, wrap-around shell.

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