SIE43 Chair by Pawel Grunert
Polish designer Pawel Grunert has created the SIE43 Chair.
Produced for the ‘Eco Trans Pop’ exhibition of ecological design at the Colombari Gallery in Milan, Italy. The chair is made from PET bottles with a stainless steel frame. The bottles can be easily changed if they show signs of damage. The seat is in the form of a flower. The rhythm of hundreds of PET bottles creates an organic structure. An ordinary form is transformed into an extraordinary form, standard form into a unique one.
Visit Pawel Grunert’s website – here.
Max on 11 Aug 2009 at 7:56 pm #
I want that.
Randall on 11 Aug 2009 at 8:20 pm #
I don’t think it’s something to be owned, as much as it’s something to be inspired by.
Quentin on 12 Aug 2009 at 12:34 am #
Hi, nice, its remember me a project i worked on with some classmates for the Paleo Festival:
http://uppix.net/b/5/e/13b9e5285bc31615742857a85b6e4.html
http://uppix.net/d/7/8/813051961fe0f2d5b42e34c59f108.html
Christian on 12 Aug 2009 at 12:45 am #
wow, that’s really funky!
Lance on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:28 am #
Very organic and aquatic and definitely inspiring. Great work.
coraline on 12 Aug 2009 at 7:24 am #
Once I realized what it was made of, I figured it would be uncomfortable as hell…sitting on the upturned pointy bottoms of about 300 two liters? Jeez. Maybe his next feat will be a bed of nails.
Steve on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:26 pm #
Speaking of beds of nails, nail beds aren’t uncomfortable at all. There’s so many that no individual nail pokes you. Just as in this design… it’s so dense that I’m sure it’s probably much more comfortable than you’d imagine.
Imaginação&lda on 13 Aug 2009 at 6:41 am #
Fantastic! The concept, the shape and the color are amazing.
Congratulations!
Ben on 13 Aug 2009 at 9:59 am #
As art, it’s beautiful. It also looks pretty comfortable.
As replicable furniture, I have two questions:
1) Aren’t PET bottles fairly easy to find uses for? I mean, isn’t that easily-recycled plastics (compared with, say, yogurt containers or plant pots or old kid toys or…)?
2) What’s the effective carbon footprint of the steel frame and how does that compare with “standard” furniture (wood, plastic or metal)?
I don’t know the answers to these questions, but maybe someone else does.
blmartech on 13 Sep 2009 at 5:37 am #
As the bottles are only held by the lids at the bottom i would suspect the would get ripped out as soon as this thing is actually used. Engineering is an art where things look good and ACTUALLY work. Must be nice to design things for a specific purpose and not need them to actually work.
remaai on 16 Sep 2009 at 8:24 am #
Yeah, that’s not going to be comfortable at all, regardless of how dense it is; there’s not give. And beds of nails aren’t comfortable, they’re just not as excruciatingly painful as you would expect. No one uses them for furniture, either.
mrsleep on 17 Sep 2009 at 2:15 pm #
@Lance
Hmmm, I fail to see how something made out of plastic water bottles can be qualified as ‘Organic’
Dave on 17 Sep 2009 at 2:21 pm #
He probably meant that the form is organic.
The seat is in the form of a flower.
siegfred dabon on 19 Nov 2009 at 6:55 pm #
I AM FROM BEAUTIFUL THOUSAND ISLANDS, the PHILPPINES.. this is for sure millions of this thing reaches and ended in all our BEACHES and SHORE LINES(not harvested witn sense), i can make a seating pieces out of this..or a SUN BED perhaps and matching Lounger. ..ahh cool!!!