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Endless Chair by Dirk van der Kooij

10-16 Weeks

The Endless Chair is Dirk van der Kooij’s hard-fought graduation project. In a worldwide first, he reconfigured a pneumatic robot arm to extrude furniture from recycled plastic. Whilst their current robots extrude with a steady hand, the scalloping has been maintained intentionally. Now printed from warm transparent plastic, the gentle undulations heighten light refraction and invite comparisons to cut crystal. In its year of design, the Endless chair won acclaim in the form of the Dutch Design Award. It sits happily in the MoMA, Stedelijk Museum, Design Museum London and the Centre Pompidou.

Not suitable for use outdoors.

Data Sheet

40x62xH80cm | 16kg
15 3⁄4x24 1⁄2xH31 1⁄2in | 35lbs
Seat height 16"

Recycled Plastic

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