CHUBBY CHAIR Kooij
42 x 45 x H47/80 cm
Dirk van der Kooij first fell in love with low resolution 3D printing as a student, fulfilling his search for honest and functional ornamentation. The Chubby chair remains his most playful child of this process, which finds its alien form through the limitations of a self-developed, plastic extruding robot. Each Chubby is printed from 10kg of chipped, recycled fridge interiors. Or, more poetically, one standard fridge.
A family of house-developed presses, robots, and extruders have directly shaped the identity of the collection. The limitations of these imperfect machines have gifted a visual language which envelops the function, tactility, and beloved oddness of the Kooij collection.
The Chubby chair is available in 12 colour options. Colour expression in the chairs is subject to exciting variation owing to the use of recycled materials and uncontrollable factors, including temperature and calcium content.
Select pieces have joined the permanent collections of the Stedelijk museum, MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco, Vitra Design Museum, Design Museum London, and the National Museum in Oslo.
Material: Recycled Plastic
Finishes: Forget-Me-Not, Lobster, Buttermilk, Dijon, Eraser, Pickle
Robot and human made in The Netherlands.
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