Benjamin Fainlight is using the streetwear methodology like seen in fashion collaboration like Virgil Abloh x IKEA, to create a flat-packed, 3D-printed version of the Easy Chair. Originally handcrafted in the 1950s for civil servants by Pierre Jeanneret, Fainlight wants to exemplify how seminal furniture designs can be dissected and updated like streetwear in fashion. Fainlight wants to recontextualise the references to create something completely new instead of adapting something that already exists by changing not only the color but also the way the piece is constructed and shipped. The Easy Chair is an iconic handcrafted piece, which was perfect for Fainlight due to the chair’s popularity and great history. The new design needed to be the opposite of handcraftmenship, resulting into choosing for International Klein Blue (IKB) as its color to emphasize the chair’s unnatural nature. The wooden fabrication is changed into plastic, the pieces are flat-packed and the caned surface of the original seating is replicated to demonstrate the flexibility of working with 3D printing. Choosing for flat-packed, 3D printed design results in a modern piece, designed and manufactured not only by people with a degree or years of experience which democratizes the whole process. Fainlight’s chair will be produced in limited quantities and will be sold on his webshop for $6,500 USD.

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https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/24/pierre-jeanneret-chandigarh-easy-chair-benjamin-fainlight

https://hypebeast.com/2020/11/benjamin-fainlight-pierre-jeanneret-3d-printed-packable-easy-chair