studio jenk: coiled folding chair
<p>with its spiral spring joint, the folding cafe chair combines modern and traditional manufacturing techniques.</p>
‘coiled’ folding café chair by thomas jenkins of studio jenk image © designboom
created by oslo-based designer thomas jenkins of studio jenk, ‘coiled’ folding café chair combines modern manufacturing techniques with traditional spring-based design methods. the joint of the folding chair is a spiral spring, made possible by CNC bending methods, that provides for extremely tight folding and efficient storage.
‘coiled’ was on exhibition at ‘greenhouse’ during stockholm furniture fair 2012.
detail view of spring joint
the chair folded up image © designboom
close view, chair open image © designboom
designer thomas jenkins with ‘coiled’ image © designboom
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