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Bender Chair

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While its simple and reduced form suggests an aesthetically-motivated design, Frederik Kurzweg’s Bender Chair is built with the experience of sitting in mind, created to support you from 9 to 5. Just like modern office chairs use complex mechanisms and hydraulic systems to enable movement, the sleek chair literally bends and flexes, the idea being that “the human body is not built for rigid sitting on a chair over an extended period of time.” With a focus on material, Kurzweg created the prototype by hand from a steel shell housing and a thin glass fibre seat (although polypropylene would be used in serial production). “Ergonomic seating has a significant importance for the preservation of long-term health,” explains the designer; with Bender Chair both form and function are preserved, proving that comfort does not have to be a sacrifice.

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