Float.

2023

Materials: stainless steel, steel, vegetable tanned leather, Dyneema.

Processes: Rhino modeling, tube bending, welding, hand sawing, splicing.

A lounge chair that blends materials and presence. Built for a metal fabrication class, its structure comes from a network of bent stainless steels rods and a tubular steel backbone. This metal framework creates the open and airy skeleton that has a large impact on the presence of the chair. It also serves as the structure for the leather seat and headrest to wrap around. Flex is an important part of the structure. The metal skeleton has compliance which allows the leather components to move and adapt to the user. Spliced Dyneema straps with lashings tension hold the leather in place.

The presence of the chair changes as you move around it revealing the complexity of the metal skeleton.