Suzak vs Bufa: Two Takes on a Textile Chair
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Like so many entrepreneurial-minded designers today, Daniel Aristizabal and Jose Manual Carvajal of Medellín, Colombia have turned to Kickstarter to launch their company. QSTO‘s (pronounced “KOO-sto”) flagship product, “Suzak,” is a chair that looks something like a piece of sports equipment mixed with, well, a piece of camping equipment. The chair form consists of a spandex-like fabric stretched across a curved steel frame, held in place by a single crossbar and a pair of heavy-duty shock cords. Check out the pitch:
At $135 for the medium (based on the video, the large looks huge), the “Suzak” hits a pricepoint that’s somewhere between dorm room and bachelor pad; easy maintenance doesn’t hurt either. It’s elegant flat-packability is also a nice touch, though I wonder how durable the frame is, especially since some users will likely see it more like a trampoline than a chair.
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