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Chubby Chair by Dirk van der Kooij

10-16 Weeks
Colour:

Dirk van der Kooij first fell in love with low resolution 3D printing as a student, fulfilling his search for honest and functional ornamentation. The Chubby Chair remains his most playful child of this process, which finds its alien form through the limitations of a self-developed, plastic extruding robot. Its friendly, anthropomorphic form is imparted by limitations in the robot's memory. The result is a chair made as simply as possible: with no memory space for extra information, the Chubby is constructed from a basic pattern of structural lines.

As the colour is achieved through sporadically introducing pigment to the extruder, each chair is to be considered a one-off in terms of its unique colour expression.

Designed in 2012, the Chubby maintains an affectionate position in the standard collection. It is held in the permanent collections of the Vitra Design Museum and The Design Museum in London.

Not suitable for use outdoors.

Data Sheet

L 17.72" x W 16.54" x H 31.50" | seat height 18.11"

10kg

Recycled plastic, pigment, steel screws, felt gliders

The Netherlands

In 2009, Dirk van der Kooij founded this studio in the basement of the Design Academy, Eindhoven. His guiding question was seemingly simple: could plastic be an honest, durable material? Six pizza ovens welded together proved that yes, it could. The resulting Elephant Skin series saw recycled plastic wrinkle and contract as it cooled outside of a mould, conjuring a rich, living tactility. The ultimate imitator had finally found an identity of its own.

A decade since this adventure began, Dirk produces a tightly curated range of forever furniture in his Amsterdam-based factory. Select pieces have joined the permanent collections of the Stedelijk museum, MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco, Vitra Design Museum, Design Museum London, and the National Museum in Oslo.

Condition: New