Konstantin Grcic discusses the painstaking design process that went into creating the Bell Chair, his new product for Magis, in a talk recorded by Dezeen for the chair’s launch today.
Grcic spoke to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in a talk recorded using video conferencing application Zoom.
In the video, Grcic discussed the design of the Bell Chair, a stackable chair formed of one piece of injection-moulded recycled polypropylene.
The chair, which Grcic describes in the video as “an egg shell with four c-shaped legs,” is a lightweight 2.7 kilograms and costs 70 Euros.
According to Grcic, it was designed within a very strict set of parameters in order to ensure that the final product would be as cost-effective, energy efficient and sparing in use of materials as possible.
In order to meet these guidelines, Grcic and Magis collaborated to design a recyclable chair that comes in three colours, is made of industrial waste produced in the manufacturing of other injection-moulded plastic chairs, and takes less than a minute to be produced.
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