Seung Jin Yang's Blowing chairs are made from party balloons
South Korean designer Seung Jin Yang has coated brightly coloured balloons in resin to create these inflated seats.
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The collection of chairs features backrests, legs and arms created using sausage-shaped inflated modelling balloons. Stools have seats made from a single balloon coiled around itself, and rest on gently curving legs.
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"I tried to turn a simple making process based on my personal childhood memories into an industrial fabrication furniture-making process," Yang told Dezeen.
Although the furniture looks fragile, Yang used eight layers of epoxy resin to create a rigid outer surface.
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Each piece needs around half a day to be coated in a single resin layer, with successive layers gradually added on top of it. As the resin sets it creates a glossy and solid surface, that's able to support weight. The process takes a week to complete a single stool.
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Dutch designer Marcel Wanders previously coated inflated balloons in strips of lightweight carbon fibre and epoxy resin, to create a chair.
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"I was fascinated by a form that is changed into a transparent and clear surface like glass when I set epoxy resin on balloons," said Yang.
"After a time balloons' surfaces lose gloss and become deflated," he added. "However, when I repeatedly coat epoxy resin thickly, I can make a solid form. It turns into attractive furniture, like glass."
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Yang had first attempted to use balloons to make lighting, but after experimenting for a few months decided to pursue furniture instead.
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"Comfort is not my prior intention when I create works," he said. "They are not soft or comfortable, but they have stability when people sit on them. It feels like plastic stools."
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The shapes of party balloons influenced Dutch designer Marten Baas's collection of hand-blown glass pendant lamps, while Swedish designer Jomi Evers Solheim borrowed the forms of water-filled balloons to design a range of ceramics.