itamar burstein: flex family

beautiful.

Steven   02.11.10

this is a good looking chair. nice

modular   02.11.10

simplified process but more material + wasted material. it's hard to justify this direction.

jpa   02.11.10

more material maybe but perhaps less processing energy and time. One hand gives, the other takes away.

peter   02.11.10

great idea and look well,maby the join need to be less longer,than u waste less material-small filet

asaf   02.11.10

clever

oliver   02.11.10

Great design, beautiful work. I however think that the energy used during the routing process would be equal to or more than steam bending. The biggest consideration however is material use/waste.

kent gration   02.12.10

Very simplistic.
Almost maruni-chair style alike. I'll still prefer the hiroshima chair.

jaymee   02.12.10

Cool

Pete Wongs   02.12.10

"in contrast to traditional methods whereby
wood is steamed, shaped in a mould and dried, burnstein uses a more simplified process." - Really, simpler? Steaming and bending wood, especially at these thicknesses, wouldn't be very difficult or time consuming.

"he removes a core piece from the larger piece of wood. the two pieces are then glued together
using pressure. in doing so, he reduces the amount of tools, energy and time taken by traditional
production methods." - I agree with several of the other comments, this process could use less energy/time/tools, but with example of the chair - I am guessing the opposite. The bend for the arm of the chair, that piece of darker wood is a solid curve, imagine how you get a curve of wood like that/ with correct grain strength. There would be a considerable waste of wood. On the other hand the lighter wood that makes the arm looks to be continuous, thats pretty nice, if he able to free form the piece after he removes the thicker portions, and using pre cnc cut darker pieces he can easily bend to a designated form/function - now thats an innovative idea.

gimmy   02.12.10

Gimmy, this is the idea! the two front legs and back rest are made of one long pre cnc cut light wood. After cutting the dark wood parts the assembly is done without steaming, just bent light wood on dark wood and glued. The thin light wood has such flexibility that it bends easily.

I have seen the project in the gallery in Paris, Nice work.

JosephP   02.12.10

I like this, but I believe I see a flaw. Most of the joints are gluing endgrain to endgrain, which is generally inferior. I'd like to know if any of those chair legs break.

J God   02.12.10

Beautiful 2 kinds of wood, look like chairs : Alvar Aalto

ruudvanthul   02.12.10

This is nice, but I like this other "Flex" project better:

Emiliano Godoy at designboom

Seems more efficient.

Jen   02.15.10