e
An Innovative Design for a Folding Chair
When open, Tierney Haines Architects' Palfrey design doesn't look like a folding chair at all
Most folding chairs look like, well, folding chairs. But Dublin-based Tierney Haines Architects has come up with this unobvious design:
Enter a caption (optional)
Enter a caption (optional)
Enter a caption (optional)That's the Palfrey Chair and my first reaction, upon realizing that these are renderings and not photography, was to wonder: Would this design work? My eye was initially drawn to the X-hinge connecting the seat supports:
Enter a caption (optional)At first glance it appears that sharp edges 1 and 2 would collide point-to-point as parts A and B are swung outwards:
Enter a caption (optional)But if we zoom in on the photo—sorry about the resolution, these are the only images THA has posted—we can see the location of the hingepin. Placed where it is, we can now see that edges 1 and 2 wouldn't meet; rather, surface 3 would come into contact with surface 4.
Enter a caption (optional)It's a handsome design, and I'd love to see it in production.
-
oFavorite This
-
Q5Comment
Directory Company Profiles
Core77
Industrial Design
Resources
Industrial Design
Resources
-
Core77 Directory
Find the Best Industrial Design CompaniesGo -
Formation Design Group
Formation is a product design + development company focused on human centered design innovation. To ...
-
A2
A2 is a product development consultancy focused on design strategy, market and user research, indust...
-
PDR
PDR is a major award-winning, multidisciplinary international centre for design and research with a ...
-
Hatch Duo, LLC
Founded by an award-winning team with over 20 years of combined product design experience, Hatch Duo...
-
Datum3D Product Development
Datum3D is a one-stop shop product development company located in the Greater Boston Area. Founded i...
-
Spitfire Industry
WHO WE ARE Spitfire is a design studio headquartered in Brooklyn. Our founder, Isis Shiffer, an awa...
-
AmmunitionFounded in 2007, Ammunition is led by partners Robert Brunner and Matt Rolandson. Our work is create...
K
{Welcome
Create a Core77 Account
Already have an account? Sign In
By creating a Core77 account you confirm that you accept the Terms of Use
K
Reset Password
Please enter your email and we will send an email to reset your password.
Comments
Amazing chair design. I was wondering where you obtained the "x-hinge". I have done a lot of research and digging for one similar but cannot find one. Any suggested websites would be great!
Beautiful design!
3 overlaps 4 as it rotates -- it works. But, it's just a chair version of a gate leg table.
I see what you mean it can't roll over from that position to a seat. It looks like a separate piece, all the sides are flat but the front and the hook it hangs from could function to attach to the opposing leg when open.
Interesting mechanism! Could it be possible, that the seat needs to be turned by 90 degrees anti-clockwise, so that the rounded part would appear on the front when unfolded? Guess in the current rendering the seat would be directed to the left. Or is the seat connected to leg B via the black sheet metal? Then it woul work out :) I also wonder, how/if the legs are fixed.