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A Fastener-Free, Easy-to-Assemble Stacking Polypropylene Chair
The Stack chair, by industrial design studio Martini & Dall'Agnol
Martini & Dall'Agnol is an industrial design studio based in Milan. They designed this Stack chair to ship in two pieces, the legs and the seat. Being made of polypropylene, the user just snaps the two parts together via the molded-in connections; there are no fasteners.
"Easy to ship and easy to assemble, compact and stackable hypothetically to infinity."
The Stack chair, which is suitable for indoor or outdoor use, is in production by Italian furniture brand Midj.
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I’ve watched Herman Miller laminate and router the curved plywood parts for the Eames line c. 1976 and know for certain that the care and labor to execute such perfection merits the price. Completely different league of artifact. Nevertheless I enjoy my Eames, both wood and Fiberglas(r) and Saarinen tulips. Plastic shots out of a molding tool require no secondaries, except, perhaps, a flash trim and some fastener embedments. The labor differential between bamboo/wood and molding is very wide indeed.
Stacked side view harks back to David Rowland’s 4-40 chair by GF. At one time the most numerous production chair made. 40 steel wire-formed and molded plywood (or stamped steel) full-figured chairs that nest in a steel 4 wheeled dolly for easy transport. This new design is extremely practical yet delightfully fresh and somewhat playful.
Would laminated wood/bamboo be a better material choice?
So, with the design brief as they list, and kept the concept of legs + back. Going to laminated wood/bamboo would be made of a renewable resource + glue + paint/coloring + secondary operations that generate less usable or reclaimable waste in a format that is typically more uniform in thickness (meaning more weight than these chairs) + some form of additional component pre-fastened to create the fastening features. While laminated bamboo is supposedly lower SG than PP, I am going to assume that total PP volume is lower by enough that it is lighter to ship. Durability (expected life comparison) of a wood solution vs a PP chair in this application assuming both are executed well is honestly probably a wash or lean to plastic, plus the mono-material construction and use of PP instead of some composite makes it more recyclable.
In short, no?