oscar tusquets blanca revives rattan with fontal chair for expormim
the seating object, which reminds us of a traditional chair uses the age old technique of caning combining it with a contemporary appearance retaining a lightness and charm resulting in a flexible but resistant structure.
oscar tusquets blanca revives rattan with fontal chair for expormim
born from the desire to revive the use of rattan as a noble material for the production of furniture, spanish designer oscar tusquets blanca has developed ‘fontal’. the seating object which reminds us of a traditional chair uses the age old technique of caning combining it with a new appearance which retains a lightness and charm. with this contemporary furniture piece, tusquets has substituted the classic strutting and joint wrapping with a twinning method in order to join the reeds with one another to form the seating surface, while the structural framework of the design is composed of bent rattan elements, resulting in a flexible but resistant structure.
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detail
‘fontal’ chair
profile detail
the caned seat made using a twinning method
bending the chair’s frame
placing the rattan dowels into a mold
creating the joints
assembling the chair
oscar tusquets blanca consulting expormim staff on the construction of ‘fontal’
