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lacquered MDF board, high gloss, with text lacquered on surface, it contains 2 hinged doors on the sides, and inside in the middle there is a dividing..

The backrest of this chair by Dutch designers Oato seems to be simply wedged between its criss-crossing legs.

Stuck Chair is made from oak with a backrest of blue powder-coated steel. The seat is lodged firmly in place by the chair legs that pass diagonally through it.

In fact, the legs are secured by screws where they intersect with each other and the steel backrest, with the holes then filled to reduce their visibility.

When discussing the concept behind the design, chief designer Stefan Tervoort told Dezeen: “We are interested in a more poetic side in design, so a more conceptual, shape driven approach, but still we are interested in reproducibility.”

Oato received an honourable mention for Stuck Chair at the Thonet-initiated ARC12 Chair Design competition in Utrecht this August.

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Hendrix is the latest design to be launched at Orgatec for Atelier de Berenn Hall 9 Stand A051. A high and low backed lounge chair, produced from moul..

If the name alone wasn’t a tip-off, just one look at the Kandinsky Chair would suggest that its striking form was inspired by the father of pure abstract painting, Wassily Kandinsky. The playful design plays with the user’s perception using altered points, line forms and most obviously a striking, mirrored reversal of the legs. Looks like something straight out of a Dr. Seuss book! Do want!

Designer: Tresenvespa

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Rather than varnish these wooden chairs to colour and protect them, Japanese designers Nendo chose to wrap them in hundreds of metres of fishing line.

“The Fishline Chair is an exploration into ways of finishing wooden surfaces that go beyond the usual applications,” say the designers.

The transparent thread was first dyed in different shades then meticulously wound round every surface of the seats, legs and backrests to create “a new luster and fine unevenness”.

The project will be on show at Interieur 2012 in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20 to 28 October.

If you like these, Nendo aren’t the first to cover furniture in threads: Tokyo designer Keisuke Fujiwara decorated bentwood chairs by German furniture brand Thonet in twelve kilometres of coloured yarn back in 2010 and Dominic Wilcox spent 75 hours wrapping multi-coloured cotton thread around five walking sticks in 2009.

Product photos are by Hiroshi Iwasaki.

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