"Looped is a line of furniture that explores the playful possibilities of pool noodles," writes industrial designer Lieyah Dagan. She collaborated with furniture designer Spenser Atlas on the project.

"Both children and adults embrace the pool noodle as a tool with endless indoor-outdoor applications, beyond its original industrial use; we thought we'd explore the options ourselves!"

"We started out by deconstructing old chair frames & playing around with the forms the pool noodles could make. Once we finalized the designs for each piece, we added dowels & MDF board to give extra support to the frames."

It does seem pool noodles would be an economical way to mock up furniture forms that you intended to make out of steamed members, a la the Thonet No. 14.