This project was one part of minor Advanced Prototyping and what i learnt during this minor led me to a whole different world 🙂
We got some information about the chairs, we read and tried prototypes and different type of materials in order to get a final design. As always I will just add some photos to give you the view of how the process went on in past few weeks:
First prototypes
The final sketch
welding the joints
laser-cutting the case for the fitting
the case which I warmed up and shaped the plastic parts on it
The triangular profile of the vertical parts makes the chair use less material so in that case I made the whole lamp based on basic geometrical shapes, triangle and circle.
the formed lamp (not sanded)
the plastic cover sanded and pined to the heading
and all these little triangles make shadows
Connections:
using the same rope as the cable for joints
final joints and cable itself
The important point in order to assign a certain type of material to another object for me was the harmony, thus this lamp has the following properties in harmony with superleggera :
Weight: 575gr lamp that makes it super light vs 1.7 kg that the chair weights itself.
Superleggeda chair