
Knotted Chair miniature & egg vase Macramé meets high-tech. By a surprising marriage of handcraft and industrial technology this lightweight chair is born. The rope made of an aramide braid and carbon centre is knotted into the shape of a chair. The slack texture is then impregnated with epoxy and hung in a frame to harden. Gaudi revisited: gravity creates the final shape. The transparent appearance of the chair misleads you, the knotted fibre, which doesn’t want to collapse looks strange, alien perhaps. The chair invites to touch and try. Despite all his modern technology he has a lovely doltishness, which bring out it’s individual and personal character. Some products are a forerunner, a come out to new inventions, materials and technology. The knotted chair is such a product. Jury-report Rotterdam design prize 1997, ‘Knotted Chair’ by Marcel Wanders appeals to the imagination because it realizes the designer’s age-old dream: making something soft and flat become rigid and three-dimensional by means of a couple of technical inventions. Moreover he rescues the traditionally pure, practical and constructive macramé technique from stuffy image that it has had since the Sixties by linking it up with the latest technology. The knotted chair is selected and presented for the Cappellini Collection. The Museum of Modern Art New York amongst many others buys the chair. The Chair won the prize of the public of the Rotterdam design prize and Wanders won the Kho Liang I incentive prize for industrial design with it. Material: aramide carbon rope, epoxy Dimensions: 72 x 56 cm x D: 65 cm (h x w x d) Design: 1996 Distributed by Cappellini, Italy
Objetos desenhados por Marcel Wanders
“Here to create an Enviroment of love, live with passion and make our most exciting dreams come true” (from his own site)
what is the best moment of the day?
” let me think… waking up ” (designboom.com)
where do you get news from?
“yeah.. good question. I have no tv, I don’t read newspapers, no radios… I guess on the street, on the way to the studio… through… there is news in the air. but no, I have no regular source” (designboom.com)
do you have any pets?
“my apple macintosh – my ibook” (designboom.com)
any advice for young designers?
“it is important to be able to speak,but even more important to be able to listen. they should practice… ” (designboom.com)
“Don’t get me wrong, I find functionality to be the fundament of design,” (designmena.com)
“As a designer you have the gift of really being able to add fun and value to people’s” (cladglobal.com)
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