Elastic Wood :: Bakery Design

You may remember Bakery Design's Nature of Material series that I wrote about before.  Well, it looks like this young design team is at it again, exploring the limitations of material and form through their new Elastic Wood series.

The Elastic Wood project aims its focus at joinery, seeking to explore the idea of flexible joints through the unusual combination of wood and elastic.  By employing the technique of overmolding (the use of two separate materials to form one cohesive component), they're able to transform a single "sheet" into a 3-dimensional object, in this case, a functioning chair.

It's an interesting method, to say the least.  What do you think?

See more: www.bakery-design.com

Loads of pics after the jump, including a few behind-the-scenes images of the fabrication process!

Comments

Very much like this: http://www.pelidesign.com/plastic1.php

from pelidesign

Nathan - Wow, very much like that indeed! I actually kind of like PeliDesign's a little more, at least I like the "bubble" design better than the flowers in these chairs. Anyway, thanks for sharing! :)

A great joinery concept, but the visual is not complete, nor consistent;
Why are metal bolts used here? Can't there be a better solution of a higher "grade"? like locking wood joints, even dowels?
Oh, and the flowers should have stayed in the sketches... over decorated, and superfluous. There are more accurate graphic forms to express the potential and function of the (very nice) joint.

Nevertheless, I like the spirit of physical realization, even when your a young and broke designer. Good luck!