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This was a year long project for my industrial design program at Western Washington University. Our senior class was prompted to make a lounge chair for small spaces. With my project, I wanted to encourage the user to play and sit in new ways, in order to discover new relationships with their body and surroundings.
The design of my chair was informed by large scale experiments with different types of squish. I tried different durometers of polyurethane foam, polylam, quilt batting, and fabric scraps before settling on a 2550 purple polyurethane.
After figuring out the squish and movement of the body of the chair, I needed to decide how to clothe it. I wanted to emphasize the folds and curves of the chair-body while it was all tied up. In order to acheive this, I used a repeating leather lacing pattern reminiscient of a corset. The corset is separated from the foam by a layer of synthetic mesh, that forms tiny little wrinkles and creates an iridescent shine with the chair-body’s natural sparkle.
