To challenge myself, I worked with three obstructions in my process. I would use upholstery in a different and modern way. I wanted the chair to be foldable and to have references to Scandinavian and japanese design.

The frame consists of 10 mm plywood which is cut into six profiles. These are  assembled with hinges. The shell consists of six pieces of hard plastic, which is padded with 3 mm foam on both sides of the plastic. Finally the chair is upholstered with woolen felt. All seams on the chair is hand sewn, which took me 105 hours. The seams are visible to create a more industrially expression  and to create sharp edges which gives the chair a lighter expression. It was important for me to achieve this “light expression”, so the chair doesn’t have too many references to elder heavy upholstery chairs. The look and function of the chair is inspired by paperfolding – especially the Japanese origami folding technique. It has been named FOLD.