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- Nik Bentel Studio has unveiled the Crazy Chair, a playful design crafted from a singular tube of fiberglass, additionally supplied in metallic and upholstered variants.
- Supplied in varied high-gloss colours, the design was initially impressed by city bike racks discovered throughout main cities.
At ICFF 2025, whimsical design home Nik Bentel Studio has unveiled the Crazy Chair, an upgraded model of its 2019 prototype, now supplied in a spectrum of main colours and varied fabrications. Shaped from a repeatedly looping fiberglass tube, the purposeful chair boasts the playful character of a kid’s doodle, leading to an “animated sketch frozen in house.”
In a surreal panorama, the studio created miniature variations of the chair in all its totally different colorways for the launch: white, black, blue, inexperienced, crimson, and yellow. The design finds its roots within the undulating tubular type of public bike racks present in main cities, and interprets its kind right into a furnishings piece for “surreal residing.” In life-size, the thinner design from 2019 is revived in a thickened body, stronger supplies, and fabrications match for various makes use of. The usual high-gloss fiberglass model is joined by an outside model constituted of powder-coated metal and an indoor plush cloth-wrapped foam model.
Fiberglass emerged as a typical materials for industrially produced furnishings within the mid-century, typically utilized by furnishings purveyors like Herman Miller, Knoll, Steelcase, and Vitra. Beloved for its resilient power and design flexibility, the artificial materials is totally embraced within the Crazy Chair as the only real materials and focus. The curvilinear design language of the piece additionally remembers the tubular metal chairs popularized by Marcel Breuer and the Bauhaus motion within the early twentieth century, a significant industrial innovation of the time.
Priced at $3000 USD, events can inquire in regards to the Crazy Chair on the official Nik Bentel Studio web site. See the gallery above for extra photos of the Crazy Chair.
