Balloon Chair by h220430 appears to float above the ground

Balloon Chair by h220430

Milan 2014: Japanese studio h220430 has created a chair that looks like it is held in mid-air by balloons, which will go on show at Ventura Lambrate in Milan on Tuesday.

Balloon Chair by h220430

A follow-up to the Balloon Bench designed by h220430 in 2011, the Balloon Chair appears to by suspended beneath ten helium balloons.

The chair aims to recreate the feeling that Pascal, the protagonist of 1950s film Le Ballon Rouge, has when a cluster of balloons carried him over Paris, rescuing him from a group of bullies.

Balloon Chair by h220430

Whereas the bench was suspended from four anchor points in a ceiling to maintain the illusion of flight, the chair fixes to a wall.

The leather-covered seat is made from fibre-reinforced plastic, steel and urethane, while the balloons are made from fibre-reinforced plastic and cord, meaning they cannot be deflated.

The designers will be showing the Balloon Chair at Ventura Lambrate from 8 to 12 April, during Milan’s design week. 

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Balloon Bench by h220430

Balloon Bench by h220430

This floating bench by Japanese studio h220430 appears to be held up by bunches of balloons at either end.

Balloon Bench by h220430

The aluminium Balloon Bench is suspended from anchor points in the ceiling, concealed by clusters of polyethylene balloons.

Balloon Bench by h220430

See also: Rubber Stool by h220430

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Here are some more details fromt he designers:


This is bench was visually inspired by the feeling of floating that the main character felt in the French movie, “Le Ballon Rouge”(1953).

In reality the bench is suspended from the ceiling by 4 anchors concealed by the balloon shapes. This creates the illusion of the bench being lifted by balloons.

W:1050 D:400 H:FREE SH:FREE


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Rubber Stool
by h220430
Pylon by Marcus Abrahamsson
and Kristoffer Fagerström
In Flakes by
Mount Fuji Architects Studio

Rubber Stool by h220430

Rubber Stool by h220430

Japanese studio h220430 have designed this stool made of recycled rubber.

Rubber Stool by h220430

The stool is made by bending one piece of rubber and bolting the legs to keep them in place.

Rubber Stool by h220430

It can be rolled up and stored when not in use.

Rubber Stool by h220430

Here’s more information from the designers:


What we aimed for this time is neither functional design nor design for marketing, but design to produce an “opportunity”. We wanted to design not just primary shape of things but secondary communication deriving from the messages in the things. Regarding the rubber, which has widely used for a long time, a research and development of rubber is moving forward with a progress of the material science. Now, the artificial synthetic rubber becomes popular and plays an active part in this field.

Rubber Stool by h220430

On the other hand, a demand of natural rubber keeps expanding since natural rubber is better than synthetic rubber in terms of its physicality and cost.  This enlarges a large scale of rubber tree planting, and environmental destruction due to a deforestation become worse mainly in Southeast Asia. Although to use recycled rubber is proposed as one of the approaches to improve this circumstance, this approach is not progressed. We designed a stool made by recycled rubber taking this situation into consideration.

Rubber Stool by h220430

Although a framework of this stool is simple with just bending one piece of rubber plate and holding legs with bolts, a form of this stool is unimaginably elegant and comfortably cushioned with elasticity of rubber. This stool can be stored in a small space by rolling up when it is not in use. We hope that this Rubber Stool is widely used as one of the usage of recycled rubber and it would be a trigger that people realize the circumstance of deforestation for making rubber.

Size: W 320×D 320×H 400


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