Cool Chair

Some ideas just come from the want to create something new. I had this idea to make a range of outdoor seating using the relatively simple process of rotational moulding where your have a negative of your object made in steel which is filled with a measured amount of plastic chips, heated and then rotated. The plastic becomes liquid and covers all the metal surfaces creating a walled object.

The plan would be to make the mould my self from sheet steel using only flat and rolled surfaces (non compound surfaces) for ease of production requiring basic equipment such as a jigsaw, a simple sheet steel roller and welding equipment.

The Duck chair was made as a proof of concept and during many design iterations drawn in the computer. I accidentally made a rendering using a speaker grill texture that produced this semi transparent object which inspired what would later become called 'Is this the coolest chair ever made'.

The Cool Chair & Astrid

This was originally titled 'Is this the coolest chair ever made!' after seeing it for the first time at the powder coaters.

Buck chair, prototype and final prototype

The plan was to make a rotationally moulded plastic outdoor chair. The design would involve no compound surfaces thus making it easier to make a rotational mould

Buck Chair finished prototype

The first prototype proved the concept but it needed tweaking

Buck Prototype No2. sketch