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Yes, yes yes. THE FOLDING CHAIR!

By Allan Chochinov - February 8, 2007

Never before have so many people sent in an item for us to blog, so in case you've been living under a rock this past week (or haven't worn your respirator while sanding bondo), here it is. The now ultra-famous, ultra-blogworthy, Folding Chair. *note: Collective conscience strikes again. Let's hope this young gentleman is aware that someone else had designed an entire line of this kind of furniture years ago.

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Allan Chochinov

Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Allan lectures around the world and at professional conferences including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA, has been a guest critic at various design schools in including Yale University, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, Ravensbourne, RMIT, University of Minnesota, Emily Carr, and RISD. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern, and Winterhouse, and is a frequent design competition juror. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, and The One Club.

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Jack Chen

2 years ago

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Cross back chairsLove this blog, very useful information about chairs . i have find inspiration for my own chairs transformation.Great !Folding ChairsLove this blog, very useful information about chairs . i have find inspiration for my own Chiavari chairs transformation.
Great !Thanks!

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Brydon

11 years ago

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Check out this design:
http://posterchair.blogspot.com/
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joe

12 years ago

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glad to see core pointing out the fact that this idea is nothing new. I think its blogworthiness is really only for the showmanship factor or the little asian dude dancing around with the chair to make it take its different forms. Design wise though, somesones been there, done that.
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Jiri Vanmeerbeeck

12 years ago

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The Honeycomb idea is very old, which is OK, it's the purpose/implementation/development/value that sets products apart. I prefer Charles Kaisin 2002 PP version (www.vange.be)
I believe Todd and Stephanie's wall (another purpose initially) was quite new when we both were top-nominated at www.index2005.dk
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justin

12 years ago

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gosh...this is really old! don't know why they are so excited.
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Pedro

12 years ago

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w0w. its really amazing! here we have some kind of a kids toy that do the same, but it's just pretty, not useful as this... I WANT!
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will

12 years ago

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whats with the "ultra" prefix?? "Ultra Famous?????" I mean, its cool and all, but you are making the english lanquage meaningless if you say this chair is ultra famous...i mean...its barely famous.
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Wes

12 years ago

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sure it's sturdy when curved together, but is it really sturdy in any other configuration?????
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mrtobo

12 years ago

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you know, i'd like to see someone sit on this thing when it's expanded more. i can't imagine in holding anyone because of the decrease to it's structural integrity due to the spacing of it's components.
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Lueda

12 years ago

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The best part of this movie is when the girl in jeans holds up the "peace" sign to her chin. HA!

its a nice chair too.
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OLAV

12 years ago

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VARIATION ON A THEME ...
SE http://www.vange.be/start.php?lang=en&rub=10&cat=2&srub=p&ref=0301
PRODUCTION START I THINK 2002 ...

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Craig

12 years ago

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Tokujin Yoshioka, anyone?

http://www.tokujin.com/en/main.html
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