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Bravais Armchair Collaboration with Lazerian Menu
Bravais Armchair. Cardboard, adhesive.
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Radiolarian Sofa. Cardboard, adhesive.
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The Bravais Armchair and Radiolarian Sofa was created as part of a collaboration between Richard Sweeney, Liam Hopkins (Lazerian Studio) and the John Hargreaves cardboard factory in Stalybridge, Manchester, England. The design process involved experimentation with columnar forms, which were inspired by structural forms in nature, including a wasp nest and the crystalline bone structure of microscopic sea organisms known as Radiolaria. Computer design techniques were used to generate the form of the furniture using triangular columns, which were oriented to utilise the structural properties of the cardboard. The individual components were extracted from the virtual model to create flat layouts, which were printed to create templates for transfer onto the cardboard- over two thousand components were hand cut and glued together to create the Radiolarian Sofa.
