Hasta La Ideas

Here’s a very different take on the folding chair: The OSSA, created by Vancouver-based design duo Johannessen & Clarke. The pair (Solveig and Krystin, respectively) met while they were third-year ID students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and drew inspiration for the chair from skeletal structures of indigenous animals:

It is constructed to evoke surprise and delight with an expressive folding motion through its center spine. OSSA is the Latin name for bones which tributes the fifty bone elements required for the spinal hinge and equally points to our inspiration of anatomy and Canadian wildlife such as venison or wild goats.

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