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Kouichi Okamoto's Aluminum Wire Composition Chair

By Rain Noe - November 8, 2011

in Materials | Furniture Design

From the You've-Gotta-Be-Kidding-Me department: Kouichi Okamoto built this entire chair out of aluminum wire and...nothing else. The whole thing is made from aluminum wire with no fasteners at all, it holds itself together like a chain-link fence. Even more impressive, this is the sum total of tools he used to build it:

Pair o' pliers and a jig. Crikey.

Called the Composition Chair, it took six months to build.

Okamato, by the way, is a DJ and sound producer turned product designer. He's the principal of the Shizuoka-based Kyouei Design lighting and product firm, and you can see more of their wicked projects—some clearly revealing Okamoto's DJ background—here.

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Calligaris

12 years ago

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I was getting bored of seeing those rattan chairs everywhere, nice to see a chain-mail version instead, although does look rather uncomfortable
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Dan

13 years ago

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Is it a mandatory requirement to have at least one terrible, ridiculous, uncomfortable, ugly, impossible-to-produce, or absurd chair per week on this blog?
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Jason Burnell

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Love this idea. The beauty I think is just that he just used a jig to bend the wire and pliers. There's something so simple but sophisticated about it.
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David Hill

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That is one seriously awesome chair!!

I want one!!

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