NL architects: OH NO skinny chair

‘OH-NO skinny chair’

the ‘OH-NO skinny chair’ by dutch based NL architects was designed as part of the charity chair project initiated by AIT and dietiker AG, switzerland as a means of helping those suffering from poor living conditions supporting the langa township in cape town, south africa.

NL architects was asked to customize dietiker’s chair called ONO. they came up with the idea to strip the chair to its bones, making it ‘skinny’ and naming it ‘OH-NO’. their intention with ‘OH-NO’ investigates to what extent, material can be stripped away from the original object for it to still remain a ‘chair’. the result was that ‘OH-NO’ became a delicate, fragile version of ONO.

detail

underside of chair

process making:

beginning to whittle away the wood

sanding

finishing off the chair

the wood that was whittled away from the chair… now a pile of saw dust