Of all the shipping pallet creations we’ve come across, this has to be one of the most stylish. It is curiously reminiscent of Le Corbusier’s famous chrome-and-black-leather Grand Confort chair. In pallet wood!
It is one of the many brilliant hacks and revisions we’ve seen of the iconic, now-uibiquitous chair…
…since we came across interior designer William Diamond’s version which he had an auto-body shop coat with white enamel and then upholstered in bright red boiled-wool flannel.
We also love architect Stefan Zwicky’s concrete interpretation….
This drawing gives insight into the basic elements of the chair: a frame holding four or five volumes…
It makes us wish we’d stumble on an old Grand Confort frame to repurpose — or make one ourselves— so we could mess with Le Corbusier’s idea even more. In the 1990’s, Cuban artist Jorge Pardo created a DEfabrication of Corbusier’s classic chair and loveseat using unpolished industrial copper tubing rather than the polished steel tubes that form the frame of the original, turning it into a bare skeleton or sculpture.
Pardo also designed a version out of black pipe, with a rough plywood base and foam cushions…
After our own hearts…
When found a general approach at Instructables.
