Flux Foldable Chair
I stumbled upon this sleek and elegant Flux chair the other day. Its leaf-like lean-back shape is refreshingly natural and smart. It can also be folded up or disassembled in minutes, and easily stored in small spaces or hung on the wall when not in use. The Flux chair has been around for some time and it hasn’t lost its shine for a single moment. To celebrate this legend, I thought it would be fun to find out how it starts!
In 2008, at an university in the Netherlands, Douwe met Tom.
They were working on a small study project, and were inspired by things that are paper-thin yet bulged with creativities.
Paper artists, such as Richard Sweeney, create objects that are intricate and versatile from one single flat piece of material. While Richard focuses on sculptures, the duo thought of chairs.
The concept of a “one-piece foldable designer chair” was born. The duo made the first group of prototypes with paper sheets.
After hundreds of experiments, the duo finally found their desired chair design. The next challenge is to transform this 8-cm-tall prototype chair into a usable chair.
Instead of paper, the duo decided to produce the chair with one single piece of sustainable polypropylene. However, the designers were told that the cost of polypropylene sheets are too high to make the chairs affordable.
The duo doesn’t take no for an answer — they resolved to make their own moulding machine. This machine is the largest in the Netherlands, it equates the size of two buses.
And voila — the Flux factory starts crafting and shipping chairs from the Netherlands. Now customers can unfold the Flux envelope and turn it into the amazing Flux chair!
We love the Flux chairs — now they come in different variations and we use it at a variety of occasions!
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Wayfair
https://goo.gl/qkqGH5 ($146.99)
AllModern
https://goo.gl/zebO7q ($146.99)
YLiving
https://goo.gl/wXP58r ($149)
Lumens
https://goo.gl/LMVVHD ($149)
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