A piece that caught my eye is this chair, called CRASH. This was a piece Konstantin worked on in 2010 in conjunction with the british designers of Establised & Sons. It is a rather simple piece that focuses on the way we treat manufacture when designing things. well, at least, thats what I understand he was aiming to do. Taken from his website it says:
The key characteristics of CRASH are its generous dimensions; it is wide and spacious ... and extremely comfortable. To crash out is a nice English expression which comes to mind.
Something I’ve been concerned with for years is the way how upholstered furniture is made. There is a huge industry out there producing endless upholstered furniture all made in the same banal way; glueing foam onto cheap wooden structures, then stapling fabric over it. CRASH consists of the same elements, a supporting structure, a piece of foam and the fabric cover. However, we do not bond these elements together. There is a supporting framework made of tubular steel, very simple and straightforward and a loose piece of moulded foam that gets pushed over the frame. The fabric finishes everything off, it is streched over the foam like a jumper.
Project assistant: Pauline Deltour (KGID)
Producer: Established & Sons
Something I’ve been concerned with for years is the way how upholstered furniture is made. There is a huge industry out there producing endless upholstered furniture all made in the same banal way; glueing foam onto cheap wooden structures, then stapling fabric over it. CRASH consists of the same elements, a supporting structure, a piece of foam and the fabric cover. However, we do not bond these elements together. There is a supporting framework made of tubular steel, very simple and straightforward and a loose piece of moulded foam that gets pushed over the frame. The fabric finishes everything off, it is streched over the foam like a jumper.
Project assistant: Pauline Deltour (KGID)
Producer: Established & Sons
However, this description was not the reason I was drawn to the chair. The simple reason was that to me he had taken a beanbag and made a simple change which makes it so much better. A beanbag, although it deforms easily to fit your body… it is convex! Useless… you just roll off! What we need more of is concave beanbags. That would be problem solved in my opinion. You do get them, but you also still get the useless convex versions.
Turns out that this chair is not of beanbag construction at all, but it brought this issue to my attention anyway. And also, I think it is a nice looking chair and looks like it does well what many chairs do not; it looks comfy to sit on! Would love to see some of his chairs for real.
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