Hasta La Ideas

Way back in 1995, Core77 was just a baby, and designer Rolf Sachs blew the sawdust off of a new chair he’d designed. Two notes:

1. Had we had the blog up and running back then we’d have covered it, but it took two years before anyone even knew what a “blog” was.

2. As you can probably tell, these first three photos are indicative of 1995 image quality.

Sach’s brilliant 3 Equal Parts chair, “an academic exercise in deconstructivism,” consisted of three L-shaped pieces made from heavy, 28mm thick Doug Fir. All three pieces were identical, and the user could configure the chair in a couple of different ways.

Years later Sachs revisited the chair for an exhibition in 2008, adding a sexy little angle to the L and switching materials to Swiss stone pine. (Unsurprising, as the longtime Switzerland-loving Sachs had converted a Swiss Olympic bobsled facility into his holiday home and was presumably surrounded by the stuff.)

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