Here are a couple of images of SuperFoam Chair, a chair made of foam with giant bubbles by designer Rich Gilbert.
Gilbert, a student at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College in London, cast the chair in a mold full of hollow plastic balls to create the bubbles.
See a video of Gilbert making the chair on his website. Here’s some more info from Gilbert:
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I’m currently studying Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London and recently produced the SuperFoam chair.
SuperFoam is an experiment in trying to create a super-sized foamed structure, in developing a specialized casting process I could design the properties of the foam itself so it flexed and deformed to create the chair structure.
What if we had the power to manipulate nature’s structures? SuperFoam is a re-creation of naturally occurring reticulated foam structures through a casting process that facilitates designing the properties of the foam itself. By developing the casting process the properties of the foam could be controlled so the chair flexed and deformed to create a supportive structure.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
lovely!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
SPONGEBOB !!!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
This is like the material invented by OMA-Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Vincent de Rijk for the Prada shop in New York.
This is the best image I could find, but of you search further you probably also can find the translucent versions:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FHdIfCQUoQQ/Sfs4CIkob7I/AAAAAAAAAZk/5eHEPKbkRIA/s1600-h/vincent_de_rijk01.jpg
October 27th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
OMA
Prada in LA
inside walls
October 27th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
well.. oma\koolhaas also just copied it from frei otto who did exactly the same thing 35 years ago.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:38 am
I love it !
October 28th, 2009 at 6:12 am
It looks like Algae blooms. Would look great in an eco-rainforest inspired cafe!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:48 am
love it… specially after watching the video! great work! what is the material exactly? is it hard or soft? would like to touch it…
October 28th, 2009 at 7:45 am
shrek’s chair
October 28th, 2009 at 9:12 am
is design evolution to become new as new molecular cooking Vs cooking (see some leading japonese designers as Yoshioka, Nendo, aso)?
October 28th, 2009 at 9:15 am
How about the ‘Sneeze Chair’? Furniture for the N1 H1 era.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
are these baloons which are blown and put inside whilw casting and what material have u used for casting as in wat plastic….????
the results are amazing….gr8 wrk dude…
October 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
may look worse without the light within…
October 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I just want to touch and jiggle it, then cut through the middle of it with a knife. Would be hard to clean out any of the dust/spills that would drip down to the innermost voids.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I always wanted to sit on Flubber!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Even the technique is the same as OMA-Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Vincent de Rijk for the Prada shop!
ONE big problem would be if for exemple someone ordered 1000 chairs PLEASE?
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Market to airlines that show Beijing Olympic swimming pool footage. Chair functions as flotation device. Any edge can be used as a pacifier. “Fasten your seat belts. We are in for a bumpy ride”
November 25th, 2009 at 8:39 am
This one attract my eyes big time,,,,colors bubels,,