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Titanium
Tokyo, Japan
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Titanium
Tokyo, Japan
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2007
Titanium is a lounge chair for both public and private indoors, conceived for arti, a Tokyo based furniture manufacture. Its design aims to achieve beauty and comfort with the neatest simplicity in composition and by means of the most advanced materials and technologies nowadays available.
I devoted this design opportunity to the realization of a ultimate bending chair within the thread of Bauhaus tradition. Its material requires a highly qualified craftsmanship and convoluted technologies, so that in Japan, for instance, only one company is able to cater for that.
Titanium consists of a 3 mm thick bent plate that supports the seat and the back; the legs are realized with a 45 x 10 mm flat band whereas the seat, in black leather, is sewn to the metal plate to ensure greater comfort and stability. Since is outstandingly elastic yet resistant, each structural member could be sized really thin and the resulting overall weight doesn’t exceed 15 kg.
The lean constantly adequates to the body movements thanks to a temperate reaction: the mild swinging that occurs while somebody seats on is unique, as if one were sitting on air.
Photo credit: Akihide Tamura
I devoted this design opportunity to the realization of a ultimate bending chair within the thread of Bauhaus tradition. Its material requires a highly qualified craftsmanship and convoluted technologies, so that in Japan, for instance, only one company is able to cater for that.
Titanium consists of a 3 mm thick bent plate that supports the seat and the back; the legs are realized with a 45 x 10 mm flat band whereas the seat, in black leather, is sewn to the metal plate to ensure greater comfort and stability. Since is outstandingly elastic yet resistant, each structural member could be sized really thin and the resulting overall weight doesn’t exceed 15 kg.
The lean constantly adequates to the body movements thanks to a temperate reaction: the mild swinging that occurs while somebody seats on is unique, as if one were sitting on air.
Photo credit: Akihide Tamura
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