The Santos chair by Mexican designer Joel Escalona is based on the form of a champagne glass.
The fibreglass chair is for manufacturers Grupo HeWi.
Here’s some more information from the designer:
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Santos
Inspired by the shape of a Champagne Glass, Santos is a drinking chair made of glass fiber.
This chair was designed by Joel Escalona for the Mexican company Grupo HeWi, and it was all supervised by the designer himself.
This design did not need any pencil sketch, because all the design process was made with digital rendering and fine-tuned in the prototyping process.
“I love to make pencil and paper sketches, I really do, but sometimes I like to model forms until I get a realistic image of my idea; so the Santos Chair was all design by digital techniques.”
“I think digital rendering is a very useful technique, because by making a picture of one design I can get people´s likes and dislikes so quickly, so before prototyping I can get a closer look to high-quality form and technical design, instead spending money and time on many prototypes. Of course, there are a lot of exceptions.”
Prototyping can take time, but in this step of design I can get a closer look of what I want, and change so many things of my designs until I get the final one.
This chair is ready now in several colors; distribution is worldwide.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
July 17th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Rose , i like this chair but i’m sure it’s the shape of a glass of champagne !!!
July 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
neat , manual labour beats everything
July 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I’ m agree with you Hemaworst but at the beginning we have an idea a drawing…. Now we have too much virtual designers sometimes alone or with a big design studio
July 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
the holy grail…
July 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
horrible
July 17th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
where are the bubbles?
July 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
holy grail … a new Jacobsen, Pillet or Starck?
July 17th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
typical use of ‘digital prototyping’. does not look like something you’d sit in for longer than 5mins - look at the curvature of that seat base!!!
it looks more like a satellite dish!
July 17th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Thank you so much for the post Dezeen, Rose and for all your comments. I can say I like technology, but is only a tool, I use digital sketching and is the same thing that pencil and paper, but with a tablet pc. In Mexico, we have pretty good artisanal and industrial process, so I’m combining new digital techniques with artisanal and industrial techniques in order to make a prototype; and I have to say is pretty comfortable, the seat and back wrap pretty good the body; so ergonomics and comfort Is one of the essentials of my design.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hey! Aren’t champagne glasses longer? And smaller? And transparent? And full of champagne?
July 18th, 2008 at 12:33 am
zuy… leave the drugs.
This is horrible. I mean, I remember doing something very similar to this at college when I was on my 1st grade, and I remember one of my teachers telling me it sucked because it wasn’t new.
This was 5 years ago…
July 18th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Tan inspirado en la cultura mexicana como lo dice tu web no lo creo, no se ve muy cómoda, pero sin duda es un buen render y un buen proceso de diseño conceptual.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:15 am
its nice to see photos of the design process!!!!!!
(i would like to see more ‘behind the scenes’ photos on dezeen not just press release photos.. )
i’m not that pumped about the form. but its a good post.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I’ m agree with Omar its nice to see design process but i think it’s not the end of design process … to be a best seller or an icon of design
To answer to Zenza from narcotic bureau , i remember a design teacher that said nothing about a concept design i was drawing but 3 years later he dvp the same concept and it’s now a world best seller…!That’s the difference…
July 18th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Ikea here I come
July 18th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
ooh, poor, poor zuy !!!
July 19th, 2008 at 6:36 am
curve line are always attractive and ambiguious
July 19th, 2008 at 7:48 am
looks more like falf an egg holder.. i like it though for its simplicity even though there is nothing nvery new about it.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Joel Escalona is a young mexican designer which offer readers an honest and revealing look behind the scene . Thanks!
July 19th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Zuy, you have far too much time on your hands - why bother posting so many comments that all seem to contradict each other?
Perhaps you should concentrate more on your own work, I for one would love to see what you make.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
contradict each other? say more or nothing
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 am
boring.
another piece of plastic for the landfill.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:07 am
maybe they should make it transparent. It would look like a person sitting in the glass if observed from behind.
The form is nice, but the other metal legs are boring.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
yung, like this chair is the metal leg boring?
Anon is this boring???
http://www.mobelgarden.no/eros.jpg
July 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I like it Rose, but wonder how comfortable it might be.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
i really liked it!
remind me a little the egg chair