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Brazilian designers Estudio Guto Requena used audio recorded on the streets of São Paulo to distort the shapes of these 3D-printed chairs (+ movie).

The Nóize chairs combine three iconic Brazilian chair designs with the sounds of the Grajau, Tiradentes and Santa Ifigenia areas of the city.

The designers distorted computer models of the chairs with the data from the audio recordings. The resulting designs were then sent to Belgium to be 3D-printed.

The original chairs were the Oscar by Sergio Rodrigues, the São Paulo by Carlos Motta and the Giraffe by Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Ferraz and Marcelo Suzuki.

The movie is by Na Laje Filmes.

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Cadeiras Nóize – Estudio Guto Requena

Desenvolvidas à convite da Galeria + Coletivo Amor de Madre, para a
exposição #FUIPARASPELEMBREIDEVC

Local: Rua Estados Unidos 2186 – São Paulo – SP
Exposição de 27/06/12 à 31/07/12

Série: Peça única
Dimensões: 40cm x 44cm x 79 cm (h)
Descriçã o técnica: Impressão 3d em abs

Above: Oscar chair by Sérgio Rodrigues

As cadeiras Nóize, desenvolvidas pelo Estudio Guto Requena, foram concebidas digitalmente a partir da mescla do som captado nas ruas de São Paulo com ícones do design brasileiro.

A cadeira Girafa, de autoria da Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Ferraz e Marcelo Suzuki, a cadeira Oscar, do Sérgio Rodrigues e a cadeira São Paulo, do Carlos Motta foram modeladas em plataforma digital 3D reproduzindo fielmente seu modelo físico. A partir de uma programação computacional feita pelo Estudio Guto Requena, com uso da linguagem Processing, deformou-se esse modelo digital através da sua fusão com o arquivo de áudio coletado em três locais diferentes em São Paulo: Grajaú, Cidade Tiradentes e Santa Ifigênia. O resultado é uma cadeira-manifesto, que para além do ato de sentar, instiga à reflexão.

Above: São Paulo chair by Carlos Motta

O arquivo digital resultante desse processo foi enviado via internet para a Bélgica, diretamente para uma máquina de impressão 3D. Após a impressão das três cadeiras, elas foram enviadas para o Brasil.

Vozes da cidade, ruídos da periferia e ressonâncias do concreto, desconstroem clássicos do mobiliário brasileiro, onde o que importa não é o resultado estético das peças, mas o seu processo de design.

São Paulo é uma cidade linda. Não-obvia, complexa e diversa, se faz interessante ao receber diferentes povos, credos e culturas sem preconceito, miscigenada, improvisada, surpreendente, irônica, colcha de retalhos repleta de belezas escondidas. Apaixonar-se por ela é uma questão de sobrevivência.

Above: Giraffe chair by Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Ferraz e Marcelo Suzuki

As 3 peças desenvolvidas pelo Estudio Guto Requena para esta exposição buscam assimilar as belezas de São Paulo, especialmente aquelas fora do eixo, numa experimentação numérica com ruídos, desconstrução e mixagem, a partir das novas possibilidades trazidas com as tecnologias digitais.

Design: Estudio Guto Requena
Desenvolvimento: Henrique Stabile
Engenheiro de Programação: Thiago Hersan
Fabricação: Materialise
Equipe Estudio Guto Requena: Tatiana Sakurai, Paulo de Camargo, Lucas Ciciliato, Ricardo de Oliveira Lima, Lucas Miller, Marina Grassi, Vitor Reis, Marcos Alexandre da Silva.

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This stacking chair by New York designer Victor Vetterlein has an x-shaped frame and razor-thin legs.

The X-Federation chair is made from laminated wood combined with carbon fibre. The legs are fastened to a steel frame under the seat.

The chair can also be dressed up with a solid brass arm rest and leg sleeves.

The photograph in the background is Xteriors VI by Desiree Dolron.

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Introducing a new stacking chair by Victor Vetterlein called X-Federation. A combination of materials and layout provide the necessary structural support for the thin profile design. X-Federation is composed of laminated wood combined with carbon fiber fabric – a material strengthening technique used in boat building and further developed in the skateboard industry.

In regards to layout, the front legs are perpendicular to the rear legs to increase lateral stability. The design includes a thin steel frame under the seat where the legs are mechanically fastened. An optional arm rest is available that fastens to the back and sides of the chair. The X-Federation Elite Class chair comes with a solid brass armrest and leg sleeves.

Four designers creating furniture that does more than just offer a seat

by Nadine Botha

Sitting, eating, lying, bathing, storing, arranging flowers, telling the time—these are the functions to which mainstream design reduces the sum of human effort, focusing on model houses with model users whose needs do not deviate from the essentials of living. But as Unhappy Hipsters highlights, humans are more than just objects in their own domestic showrooms and, moreover, we are more often than not lonely and horrible. Here, a few young designers creating furniture that addresses more psychological functions than simply sitting down.

The Courtesy Table

The “Courtesy Table” by young Dutch designer Marleen Jansen came out of her thesis on table manners. She wanted to design a table that voluntarily forced people to remain at the table until everyone was finished eating. The bench beneath the table is hinged like a see-saw and requires both diners to remain seated if balance is to be maintained. You can’t help wondering if the second iteration will also somehow prevent diners from using their mobile phones.

Homage to Karl

The “Homage To Karl” chair by Patrycja Domanska and Felix Gieselmann is a high chair to make it easier for writers in coffee shops to observe people and distinguish themselves. Literally elevating the status of cafe hacks and affording reticent writers with some narcissism, self-staging and even retreat, the chair was inspired by Austrian author Karl Kraus, known for his patronage of Viennese cafes.

Confession

Swedish design student Nick Ross has also sought to design a micro-environment of discretion within public spaces. “Confession” is a bar with a sound-proofed hood that encourages confidential activities such as the sharing of secrets, office gossip, a personal story or even a quick business meeting in crowded areas. Like in Arik Levy’s similar atonement-orientated “Contemporary Domestic Confessional“, the privacy-seeking zeitgeist is providing solid inspiration for thoughtful furniture design.

Modified Social Benches

Besides driving a throwback to confidentiality, it is also possible that Facebook is making the world lonelier than ever before. Danish artist Jeppe Hein has hacked the typical park bench to create alternative typologies, which encourage interaction and discussion about social behavior in public spaces. The almost dysfunctional benches demand that the user be engaged with their environment and turn sitting into a conscious act, rather than blending into the anonymity of the crowd.

Dezeen reader Trevor Cook asked us to make a Pinterest board compiling chairs from the pages of Dezeen. So here it is.

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Milan 2012: visitors were invited to sit in a chair hooked up to advanced stress-analysis equipment normally used in the car industry at an installation by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for car brand Audi in Milan last month.

Above: Alice Rawsthorn, New York Times design critic

Data collected from the R18 Ultra Chair Public Beta tests will be used to hone the structure and shape of the final chair, which will be presented at Design Miami in December.

Above: Paola Antonelli, MoMA curator

Movies of every test can be viewed on the project website.

Above: Max Fraser, deputy director of London Design Festival

Weisshaar and Kram previously worked with Audi to install eight robotic arms in London’s Trafalgar Square to scrawl messages across the sky.

Above: Marcus Fairs, Dezeen editor-in-chief

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The Salone Internazionale del Mobile took place from 17 to 22 April.

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Audi and the designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram are pleased to announce their project for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2012:

R18 Ultra Chair – Public Beta

Designed by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for Audi

For their groundbreaking new venture, the designers are developing a chair within a public testing environment in collaboration with Audi’s Lightweight Design Centre using methods borrowed from the future of automotive manufacturing.

The R18 Ultra Chair consists of three main components: a carbon composite seat, a carbon-rubber composite back rest and aluminium alloy legs which can be compacted and transported in a lightweight flat-pack box.

Its genesis incorporates crowd-sourced data acquired through thousands of testing sessions using advanced industrial sensors whose data is processed by custom algorithms to adjust the final geometry and construction of the end product accordingly.

Visitors to the installation are invited to use the chair and view their unique physical impact on it displayed via a video wall inside the testing booth. Hundreds of industrial sensors integrated into the prototype capture every movement and simultaneously display it as a realtime false colour force simulation, thus exposing and visualising the flow of forces normally hidden from the human eye.

The purpose of this live laboratory is to gather user data in order to optimise the final product and shed every gram of excess weight. Every testing session will be documented as a personalised video and sent back to each visitor by email link to watch and share with friends. After the PUBLIC BETA phase, all crowd-sourced data will be fed into the chair’s design parameters and its production adapted as necessary.

The R18 Ultra Chair – Public Beta installation will take place in the courtyard of the 18th Century Palazzo Clerici, Milan from April 17 to 22, 2012 during the 51st Salone Internazionale del Mobile. The final product will be presented to the public in December 2012 at Design Miami.

The chair’s namesake is the 24 Hours of Le Mans winning Audi R18 race car. Audi has dominated Le Mans with its cutting edge technology for the past decade and won 10 races since 2000. As part of the installation the Le Mans 2011 winning Audi R18 will be exhibited alongside the PUBLIC BETA testing lab. The carbon fibre monocoque chassis with an Audi TDI 3.7 litre V6 engine and total weight of only 900kg represents the ultimate in lightweight construction – Audi ULTRA.

Audi Ultra stands for state of the art lightweight construction, technology and design aimed at streamlining and optimising efficiency across the board. This begins with the raw materials sourced for production all the way through various manufacturing stages, the operation of the vehicle, its fuel consumption and its deconstruction and recyclability at the end of its life cycle.

Each stage of the chair’s design, construction and transport is guided by the rigorous principles laid out by the ULTRA paradigm and its holistic application. ULTRA’s specific focus on the intelligent combination of materials stresses the implementation of the optimum material for every given purpose resulting in a sophisticated multi-material space-frame.

The legendary Domus Magazine will be hosting a concurrent exhibition entitled OPEN DESIGN ARCHIPELAGOS curated by editor-in-chief Joseph Grima on the upper floors of the historical Palazzo Clerici.