PetitPrince 2 days ago
Since they rely on curves for the sitting surface, they should have done a proper saddle chair shape instead. The current design prioritize the manufacturer/corporation over the user/human. This is a failure on my book.
virtualritz 2 days ago
Indeed, looks super uncomfy.

And yeah, I helped a friend who's a furniture designer [1] for a few years.

After a while, when you 'beta test' pieces in development a lot, you understand that looks are great but comfort always wins.

[1] https://www.saschaulber.com/works/

jszymborski 22 hours ago
In my mind, the chair is meant to deform some, such that the curved seat gives a bit. But that might just be in my mind
stronglikedan 18 hours ago
I think you're correct. I think it would form sort of an upside down W shape when sat on, but with softer curves, and no edges digging into the user.
y04nn 2 hours ago
It makes me appreciate even more the simplicity and affordable price of a folding chair.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/vihals-folding-chair-green-0059...

bcraven 2 days ago
Non-curved model that can be made from a single piece of plywood:

https://store.bigguyinatinyhouse.com/products/flat-folding-c...

jszymborski 22 hours ago
This looks impossibly uncomfortable though. The backrest looks like it's pushing you off the seat and the chairs legs look like they'd pin in your own. No thanks!!
munificent 20 hours ago
Not super comfortable, but it has the advantage of being easily disassembled too. It's a folding chair, so you can stuff a stack of them in an attic and bring them out when you need to seat a bunch of people. Paculda's design looks like it makes shipping cheaper, but doesn't otherwise provide benefit.
stoobs 23 hours ago
Yup, that wins in simplicity, but a deckchair is almost as simple, and is a lot more comfortable
northernsausage 23 hours ago
This should be the top response tbh.
nkrisc 2 days ago
In the thumbnail concept sketch it shows someone sitting in it with their arm hanging over one of the “armrests”. What the sketch doesn’t convey is the blood flow to their arm being cut off.
madaxe_again 23 hours ago
If it doesn’t give you Saturday night palsy it isn’t a chair
kjellsbells 2 days ago
I don't love it immediately, and yes, in fiberglass this chair doesnt sound too comfortable. But if it were made in leather, I could see it becoming very comfortable indeed, and the keather would also nod to the very obvious saddle shape.

(Always good to see common objects reimagined, even if they might not seem "right", they get a conversation started.)

lopis 23 hours ago
Leather would not provide the tension needed for this. You'd need a core maybe of something else.
stronglikedan 18 hours ago
Ok, leather over carbon fiber, for the wealthy.
glimshe 2 days ago
This person is very talented but that chair looks super uncomfortable. Resting you arms on those thin armrests will hurt within seconds. But that's exactly the type of furniture my mom loves :)
Gravityloss 2 days ago
A lot of other modern furniture looks like it was just the default in CAD. Ie completely rectangular arm rests with sharp edges etc. I get that a car like Ford Sierra looked featureless and too simple in its time, I guess it seemed like lazy design. Where were all the trims and grilles and fenders and in general the "borders between things"? But I think it didn't hurt its usability.
stoobs 23 hours ago
That looks awfully uncomfortable, I suspect that it will rapidly fall apart under stress and leave nice sharp splinters of fibreglass everywhere, including in your skin.
esperent 2 days ago
It's cool but that rounded seat looks very uncomfortable. I could imagine it as a great item for a child's room though, if they could build it themselves from the flat sheet.
archerx 2 days ago
I wish they had shown a real version of the chair with a real human sitting on it.
nntwozz 24 hours ago
I came here to post the same thing, this is the only thing that matters.

"I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive."

- Tyrell, Blade Runner 1982

poody 23 hours ago
I love the way it looks.. but I did not think about how it may feel.. It could be a MOMA piece tho..
QuantumNoodle 24 hours ago
What an awesome website!
layer8 20 hours ago
At first it appears to be a single part, but it’s really four parts, plus twelve connector pins.
oliveiracwb 20 hours ago
As publicidades que mais odeio: Internet (roubam sua privacidade, lateralizam seu pensamento). Embalagens (prefiro as embalagens Dharma, militares e soviéticas: sem cores ou textura, so informações). E de produtos: a mais pura inovação (o lixo da minha cidade é cheio de inovações). A que mais vou odiar no futuro: as embutidas na IA.
WalterGR 23 hours ago
> Made from durable fiberglass panels

What sort of fiberglass bends as much as depicted without breaking?

Exoristos 20 hours ago
Fiberglass can be made with all kinds if resins, including flexible ones.
kleiba2 2 days ago
Except that I just don't subscribe to the idea that flatpackedness should be the guiding principle of furniture design.
poody 23 hours ago
Come for the chair.. stay for the statues dressed in clothes.. made my day
smusamashah 2 days ago
The screws on the bottom will be under lots of strain I imagine
rob74 2 days ago
Also, depending on how flexible the material is, it looks like those screws might scratch the floor on which the chair sits?
stavros 2 days ago
And, unfortunately, strain in the wrong direction, as the bottom plate will want to flatten out. It doesn't look like this chair will last more than a few days before dropping you on the screws.
meindnoch 2 days ago
Looks extremely uncomfortable and unstable.
conartist6 2 days ago
Nice tall backrest, angled inward so that only the top corner slices into your back and nothing else makes contact.

...Also I hope you don't have any bones in your butt

speps 2 days ago
dang 19 hours ago
Ok, I've made that link the top one (even though you have to scroll down to find the flat chair) and moved the submitted link to the top text.

Thanks!

alphakappa 19 hours ago
Thank you. The original website is a uniquely awful ad-infested page.