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designboom and 100% design international design competition 100% FOLDING CHAIRS - PROTOTYPES WANTED results ! title: bambolè # : 31 name : regina sigmaringa seixas gender : female age : 34 city : são paulo state : brazil ---      FOLDING CHAIR BAMBOLÊ FLAT PLATE DIAMENTER 1.10 M SEAT DIAMENTER FOR USE 0.80 M SEAT HIGH 0.25 M SEAT BACK HIGH - 0.65 M MEMORY "If a piece of furniture or equipment folds or if you can fold it, you can make it smaller or flatter " *1 The folding chair "Bambolê" intend to be an confortable dismountable easy chair originated from an flat piece of flexible plastic. "Bambolê" chair is composed of a minimum metal structure and a steel cable that rolls around the structure and tenses the flat plate until it has been transformed into a confortable easy chair. The utilization of this system also makes possible to control the chairs back inclination. An chair originated from a flat plate provides the opportunity of exploration of diferent flexible materials such as : stainless steel, a wide variety of plastics, flexible wood, cardboard, and also allows the exploration of a diversity of textures, colours and densities. *1- Cobuild, Collins English Dictionary HarpersCollins Publishers first edition reprinted - Great Britain 1995 ---  back to the competition results index ---  ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? ------- 
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