Experimental Furnishings Design Method: Shaping Foam with Steel Inserts

Crosses seating, by Annabella Hevesi
Product designer Annabella Hevesi prototyped this uncommon Crosses chair.
Slightly than historically tufting the upholstery, she’s experimenting with the next method:
“The motivation for designing this assortment was to attempt a brand new mechanical joint answer that enables a brand new strategy to shaping the consolation foam. Initially, within the upholstery furnishings business the consolation foam is formed by slicing or casting it: the primary ends in lots of waste and has limits of form, and the second is extraordinarily costly and thus solely appropriate for high-volume manufacturing.”
“The brand new joint answer’s level is that we have now some exterior instruments (steel parts are produced by additive know-how) that distort and press the froth to succeed in its ultimate form. This technique reduces waste and makes a mechanical connection among the many parts as a substitute of gluing.”
That is only a temporary excerpt of Hevesi’s notes; she’s written extra of a manifesto on the topic which you can learn right here.
Hevesi and accomplice Gábor Bella make up the Budapest-based design duo generally known as Line and Spherical.