Vegetal Chair
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
The Bouroullec brothers have cooked up yet another amazing piece of furniture. Dubbed the Vegetal Chair, it is (very clearly) inspired by plant life:
“Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are interested in… nature’s growing process. Their first drawings and models for Vegetal show a structure that grows from four branches into a network of twigs, which create a basket. The twigs support the body of the user and the openings among them allow transparency and space for the legs of a second chair to be stacked on top.”
“The front legs became part of the seating ‘basket’, while the back legs had to be inserted. The voids of the ‘basket’ are not set in an ornamental way as for decoration, they are the free spaces that remain after the construction of the reduced network of twigs needed for the support and comfort of the user. As the twigs became flat, so they needed ribs or nerves on the underside to provide strength: another construction principle borrowed from nature, like the structure of a leaf.”