Bamboo-steel chair is designed by Nendo and will be exhibited at La Triennale di Milano.
The National Taiwan Craft Research Institute is concerned with the revitalization and development of Taiwan’s traditional crafts skills and industries. Nendo designed this chair as part of the Institute’s Yii series, a new project with art direction by Gijs Bakker, co-founder of Droog Design.
The task was to discover sources for new designs through research into Taiwan’s traditional bamboo handicrafts and furniture. The designers applied bamboo-working techniques to tubular steel pipes, which can be easily mass-produced with standard levels of quality.
Borrowing bamboo handicraft techniques like weaving together thinly sliced sections and joining parts by wrapping them around each other allowed them to give the hard metal a sense of pliancy.
