ENDLESS CHAIR Kooij
Fixed - 40 x 68 x H43/80 cm Rocking - 40 x 69 x H43/77 cm
In 2011, the Endless Chair came to life as Dirk van der Kooij’s hard-fought graduation project. In a worldwide first, he had reconfigured a pneumatic robot arm to extrude furniture from recycled plastic. The first series consisted of gently tinted plastic threads, built up shakily to form 3D tapestries. A misaligned motor imparted a scalloped pattern, though was also responsible for the unlikely tacitly of the technique.
Whilst the current robots in use extrude with a steady hand, the scalloping has been maintained intentionally. Now printed from transparent plastic, the gentle undulations heighten light refraction and invite comparisons to cut crystal.
In 2011, the Endless Chair won acclaim in the form of the Dutch Design Award. It sits happily in the MoMA and Stedelijk Museum.
Material: Recycled Plastic
Robot and human made in The Netherlands.
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