Experimental Furnishings Design: The Canti Chair

Industrial designers Mirko Ihrig and Casey Lewis are primarily based in Berlin and Milan, respectively. However that hasn’t stopped the 2 designers, who met whereas working at fuseproject, from beginning up their very own design agency known as Lotto. One in every of their tasks, Canti, is an experimental chair design that caught my eye:

Picture: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti

Picture: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti

“Canti’s design originates from the concept of developing a chair from wooden when seen as an industrialized materials. Timber is usually reduce into planks to permit for environment friendly manufacturing, transport and use. Canti highlights these qualities with a cantilevered development, solely utilizing planks of strong wooden. So as to add consolation to the naked construction, solely the required is carved out to create refined curvature.”

Picture: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti

Picture: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti

My solely gripe is that the unforgiving nature of the bottom requires a dead-flat flooring. Have been it to enter manufacturing, that could possibly be addressed with minimal toes, however I suppose that will detract from the monomaterial nature of the piece.

Picture: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti

Picture: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti

The challenge was self-initiated, and the prototype was constructed by veteran German craftswoman Wiebke Wolkenhauer.