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Elephant Seating

Type
Cultural › Sculpture
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
Made by folding and gluing many layers of industrial felt sheets, Elephant Seating draws conceptual content from many elements of design history. The result is a sofa that is mysterious yet humorous, soft yet dense, and conceptual yet practical.
This sofa was named Elephant Seating because of its resemblance to an elephant in terms of its color, texture, and ear-like elements that act as armrests. Because of the material, the sofa is very soft all over. Yet because of its geometry, density and structure, it is very stable. Since the sofa is soft, it can be shipped without the risk of being damaged. No assembly is required by the user. The seat area is structurally stabilized by the vertical folding and layering of the felt sheets all glued together tightly. The ear-like piece hanging from the armrests provide further lateral stability. Other than a sheet of plywood embedded in each armrest, the sofa is literally and figuratively made by folding of layered felt sheets.

これは建築家宮城竜紀によってデザインされたソファーです。多くのフェルトのシートを重ね合わせ束ねられた素材を折り紙のように折ることによって構造が成り立っています。2003年に造られて以来、今日にいたるまで、アメリカ全土やアジアなど多くの場所で展示されており、出版も世界中の雑誌や本で紹介されています。

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