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  Stuart

  13 years ago

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  As Jizzenhard pointed out...The Egg Chair was made using 110 PIECES of ply, not 110 sheets as the headline suggests. The 110 pieces were digitally laid out in a computer program on the most efficient sheet size to maximise material efficiency.
  

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  Tasman munro

  13 years ago

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  on the controversial topic, here's a clever chair made from one sheet of ply:
  http://www.jongoulder.com/products/Leda-Seat_Seating/

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  Charles

  13 years ago

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  I think you meant that design blogging is subjective. Could this post be filled with any more judgement statements? Perhaps the ply is FSC certified, and the glue non toxic. Why bother researching any of that when you can make passive aggressive slights against a "chair"?
  
  It's funny I have never seen the sustainability card played when you are hyping any of Apples 1000 products that become obsolete within a year of their launch. Lets also keep in mind that this is a small batch production, so the ecological impact is minimal.

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  Blaine

  13 years ago

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  I think the design is an interesting idea, what I dont particularly enjoy is how the author equates sustainablity to automatically making a design "good" or the lack of it making a design "bad". If the deciding factor in "good" design is sustainability and the ability to be easly recycled then 98% of everything currently being designed, built, and sold on a commercial level is most likley "bad" design.

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  Schooley

  13 years ago

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  ...doesn't look like comfort is either.

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  tudza

  13 years ago

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  If you build it so tough it will last 50, 100, ?, years do you really need to worry about whether it recycles or not?

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  hans maus

  13 years ago

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  A.) I think this was cut with a CNC router and not with a laser.
  B.) Plywood sheets are glued in the first place.
  C.) I am sure this will be not high volume.
  

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  Josh

  13 years ago

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  Wow...shitty design.... Leave it to an architect ;-). Save for McDonough, Rams, and others. But... one does have to have a really high degree of self importance (stereotypical archetect) to design that piece of crap in this day and era. By the way, another severe weather "event" is about to nail already-flooded Queensland. Cut em' down! Woo hoo! Have fun with that down under designer gal. Ignore it, it will totally go away.

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  Mike

  13 years ago

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  First thing that comes to mind: It tips over onto the flat side, pinning you inside a 500lb wooden egg.

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  G. Jizzenhard

  13 years ago

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  A quick read of the egg chair link (and strangely also included in the body of this article) suggests that the chair is made of 110 PIECES of ply, not 110 SHEETS as the headline suggests.
  
  I'm not sure if the designer here would appreciate such a provocative headline based on an erroneous fact!

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  emanster provolone

  13 years ago

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  um yeaaahhhhh. I'm gonna have to check on this one. If sustainability is not the point here, what exactly IS the point?

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