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The construction of modern seating furniture borrows a lot from the animal kingdom. This was what I observed after a visit at the furniture manufacturer \u2018Montis\u2019. Skeletons of steel tube carry a thick package of rubber foam muscles, covered by a layer of white polyester fleece and are in the end covered by a skin of leather.<\/p>\n

Only one difference compared to nature\u2019s model is striking: The underlying skeleton structure has nothing in common with the sleek, designed form of the chair. It only serves as a support. <\/p>\n

What would these furniture pieces look like, if one would let them grow?<\/p>\n

If we would use the skeleton as a basis, build up muscles where necessary, put on fat where padding is needed and tailor the skin to the movements of the body?\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Without further ado I was rifling through the nearby junk yard on the lookout for suitable remains. Old metal chair became for me archeological treasures and I set about recreating the original creature.<\/p>\n

By adding muscles where I considered it anatomically correct and modelling them into shape, the creature more and more started to take shape.<\/p>\n

I sewed the skin from artificial leather. For a tall grown slim creature I tailored an elegant pinstripe suit. The cutting pattern developed from the extremities: lower leg, upper leg, bottom.
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When you take off the skin of a cow, there’s the meat. When you take off the meat, you have the skeleton. My chairs are constructed like a creature: skeleton, meat, skin. I reconstruct metal frames I found on the dump based on anatomic rules. Like an archeologist who finds a dinosaur skeleton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18,15,69,9],"tags":[61,41,64,29,56,37,65,28,68,35,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}