Hasta La Ideas

Good designers mess around with new materials to discover their distinct properties, creating forms they could not have made with the previous generation’s materials. Through their workshop experimentation we eventually get objects like the bentwood Thonet chair, the Eameses bent-plywood furniture, Robin Day’s polyprop stacking chair, et cetera.

We’ve yet to see a definitive object emerge using carbon fiber, but one of the designers seeking it is architect/industrial designer Aeron Tozier. Tozier’s Ascension line of furniture combines quilted leather and resin-coated brass with the wispy-yet-sturdy structures carbon fiber is capable of being formed into.

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