Carbon fiber "knot" lounge chair

Wanders's knotted recliner Marcel Wanders, a Dutchman born in 1963, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Aachen, The Netherlands, in 1988. He then produced his first design by PTT (The Netherlands The postal service) company commissioned the design of the lamp. According to the requirements, he used unadorned cloth shades, one layer on top of the other. When he realized that the critics had turned this simple practice into a "ready-made artwork," he was a bit uneasy and claimed that it was more of an academic concept.

In 1995, he was invited by the Droog Design Society to call "pure design," and he also got an opportunity to experiment with his "design for love." For this, he It is said that this has become an academic-oriented society.

Vanders said that this creative idea started with the knot craftsmanship uses a format where the chair is "practical, durable, and will not devalue over time." The chair is woven according to the traditional weaving process with a rope containing a carbon fiber sheathed with an “aramid” (aramid) braided sleeve to form this soft, indecipherable form of the chair, which is then immersed in the bisoxy resin. In the solution, after being treated with epoxy, it is hung on a frame, eight corners are pulled out to build a chair shape, then dried in a high-temperature room, and the rope becomes solid and strong after drying at a high temperature. The combination of craftsmanship and high-tech has produced a chair that is almost as strong as iron, although it seems unreliable.

The “knot” recliner manufacturing process is based on a traditional knotting process in which a rope containing “amidid” wrapped with carbon fiber is knotted, and its form is soft and loose. After being treated with epoxy, it is hung on the frame and has The shape of the chair. The thick rope becomes solid and strong after drying at high temperatures. The production process and methods are achieved through the "Droog" design project that will be initiated by the "Droog" design team in cooperation with the aviation and space laboratory of the special arts education TV station in the Netherlands. The designer is a special member of the "Droog" design team. The Dutch "Droog" means "dry" or "lack of substance."