Hasta La Ideas

Viennese designer Philipp Aduatz recently completed his Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, but it doesn’t take an advanced degree to see the strong sense of organic form that inspires and informs his work.

Aduatz will be presenting a couple of new chair designs at Tent London, at the Old Truman Brewery in East London from September 22–25: “Melting Chair,” which “captures a transient transformation within a sculptural object,” and the “Flower Chair,” a further exploration of a theme that Aduatz has explored in the past.

Glass fiber-reinforced polymer with a silver coating and scratch resistant polyurethane lacquer

The “Melting chair” represents Aduatz’s attempt to capture an otherwise ephemeral state of transition—”either as a solid chair melting away or as a solidification of a liquid melt”—when a material “seems utterly fragile and filled with fascinating possibilities at the same time.”

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