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Belgian designers Quinze & Milan have designed this chair comprising layers of leather and fabric clamped between an oak frame.

Called Second Skin, the seats are handmade with up to five layers of leather or fabric.

The information below is from Quinze & Milan:

Beautifully color-dyed leather, exchangeable fabrics by Kvadrat, and a timeless wooden framework. Say hello to our new Second Skin chair.

What makes a chair a chair? What distinguishes it from a stool, a sofa or a bench for that matter? For Second Skin, we stripped down the notorious easy chair from all unneccesary frills, until we were left with nothing but its core, the bones.

Given the deconstructed chair and keeping in mind traditional upholstering in leather, we then started playing – the result being a comfortable chair reflecting a 21st-century interpretation of time-honoured craftmanship.

A strikingly simple framework, created from massive lacquered oak, supports a generous piece of leather skin which is wedged between the back and arm rests. Each chair is constucted by hand and totally unique, due to the variety in cut-outs of big pieces of leather and the way they are draped around the framework.

The wink to fashion should be obvious, as well as the reasoning behind its name – although apart from leather, there is also the option of upholstering the chair in the desired colour of fabric Divina by Kvadrat. If desired, up to five layers of (contrasting) leather or fabric can be applied to one chair.

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Architecture student Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez of the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain has designed a conceptual auditorium for the Tate Modern gallery in London.

Called The Cave, the design features a series of overlapping planted ramps, which would form the foyer and access routes into an underground auditorium.

The proposal intends to connect the Tate Modern with other landmarks in the area and incorporates the creation of a new park.

The project begun during an exchange programme with the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

Here’s some more information from Martínez:

ORDINATION OF THE AREA AND NEW AUDITORIUM OF THE TATE MODERN

This is the Degree Project of Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez. It was presented last September 2010 in the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) with a mark of A.

The work was begun during an exchange program with the Professor Colin Fournier of the Bartlett School of Architecture and it was carried on with the tutor Ángel Verdasco Novalvos.

The project is focused on three essential parameters of London: the green areas, the icons and landmarks and the pedestrians. What it is searched is to recover the figure of the pedestrians and involve them again in the city. The public space is the basic network for getting it.

Focused on the Tate Modern as an icon which is isolated in its environment (particularly its back side), the project works in two overlapped scales: the necessity to connect the Tate with others landmarks and its own renovation and adaptation for the new social demands.

A new park is created whit the intention of solving it and a new auditorium was included.

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Taking into account the important of the chimney in the skyline of London the new auditorium is buried for preserving the views over it.

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This produces an inversion of the normal program of an auditorium, so the accesses and foyers are now over the music halls in directly relationship with the park and its new topography.

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The auditorium is made up of three different halls, which have the same stage.

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This produces that every kind of performance can be showed whit simple mechanical partitions depending on the capacity necessity.

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The three halls are covered by huge concrete beams, which at the same time are covered by other smaller beams.

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Between them the public program of accesses, tickets and multifunctional rooms are developed.

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Over them, a new topography creates the green roof, which is part of the park.

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