Designer François Dumas of the Netherlands presented this collection of chairs made from bent plastic  design is made by heating plastic rods to make them flexible then setting in wooden moulds – much like the production of bent wood furniture.

Sealed Chair results from the research and development of an accessible and affordable serial production process. The chair’s structure consists of three extruded plastic rods made flexible by heating in an oven. After having been formed in wooden templates, the parts are connected using a welding technique that emphasises the melting of the plastic: a seal. Those seals are made by imbricating the templates together as a puzzle. Depending of puzzling two or tree templates, the outcome of this mould is either a chair or an armchair. via

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