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A Club Chair/Loveseat/Sofa Seating System Made of Aluminum Sheets

By Standard Equipment

By Rain Noe - May 2

in Furniture Design

Standard Equipment, a Toronto-based furniture startup, is producing this unnamed seating system framed with 5mm aluminum sheets. It ships broken down, and you bolt it together. The cushions are foam, upholstered in Olefin canvas.

It's available as a one-seater club chair…

…a two-seater loveseat…

…and a three-seater sofa.

Personally I think this is a crazy way to build furniture; I can't imagine this sitting flat on anything but a perfect concrete floor, and I don't think it would look great shimmed. (Maybe there's some play in the bolt holes to account for uneven floors?) It's also not difficult to imagine catching a pant leg on the exposed bolts, depending on where you're sitting.

The aluminum is available in a raw finish, or powder-coated; the company says they can do any color in the RAL catalog (RAL, developed in Germany a century ago, is to industrial and architectural applications what Pantone is to print).

Cost? "Contact for pricing."

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David Merio

7 months ago

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Those edges… not for people with toddlers.

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Alan Nomoto

7 months ago

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Would be awesome in steam bent plywood.

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Jason Blandford

7 months ago

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Cannot possibly be comfortable to sit on for any length of time...unless you're a robot, perhaps.

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Ryan Cee

7 months ago

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A little plain, might be an acceptable design for institutional settings though.

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