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Odddot's Plywood Easy Chair

All veneer, all the time

By Rain Noe - November 17, 2022

in Furniture Design

This isn't quite my cup of tea, but does satisfy curiosity. This Plywood Easy Chair, by UK-based furniture brand Odddot, really wears its veneers on its sleeve:

It looks to me like a nightmare to manufacture, but I can't claim that's true; the company has not a single word of copy describing the chair, the thinking behind it or its fabrication story. It's only through the brand's Instagram that I could even find the close-up of what the supports consist of (copper tubes).

In any case, the brand has a thing for making objects with exposed plywood veneers. You can see more of their stuff here.

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Jeff Smith

2 years ago

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The view of the material's cross-section gives it an interesting look. Needs to be well bonded throughout to avoid potential for wood splinters in your rear. There's another veneer-based product called Parallam that has an appealing cross-section although I've never seen it used in furniture.

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Ladislav Kubo

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Aesthetically pleasant artefact, only that excessive utilisation of laminated veneer might not show any substantial awareness of sustainability....
Otherwise, when it is only a limited accesibility to the well-off consumer, just this, rather manieristic approach to the design is well placed indeed.

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Ladislav Kubo

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An aesthetically pleasant sample of "gestaltung" in a very late period of "design era"

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