De-chair
Hand crafting a wooden chair against the common principles of wooden chair design.
Designing a wooden chair involves balancing numerous guidelines and principles, from construction strength to comfort and usability. But what if we challenge these norms? Can we bend the rules without losing the chair's core function?
De-chair emerges from this experimental approach, transforming traditional design elements. By inverting familiar features, De-chair reimagines what a chair can look like while still remaining fully functional. Its tapered legs angle inward rather than outward, creating a visual tension that challenges our sense of stability. The seat, unusually narrow at the back, defies ergonomic norms, and the backrest, shorter at the top, further disrupts expectations. Each of these design choices contributes to an aesthetic of instability and uncertainty, without losing the original functionality of a hand-crafted wooden chair.
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Photo's of the final 1:1 chair
Photo's of the 1:10 scale model
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De-chair
![](https://cara-jacobs.com/storage/app/public/images/projects/de-chair/6728d6f79f413.jpg)
Hand crafting a wooden chair against the common principles of wooden chair design.
Designing a wooden chair involves balancing numerous guidelines and principles, from construction strength to comfort and usability. But what if we challenge these norms? Can we bend the rules without losing the chair's core function?
De-chair emerges from this experimental approach, transforming traditional design elements. By inverting familiar features, De-chair reimagines what a chair can look like while still remaining fully functional. Its tapered legs angle inward rather than outward, creating a visual tension that challenges our sense of stability. The seat, unusually narrow at the back, defies ergonomic norms, and the backrest, shorter at the top, further disrupts expectations. Each of these design choices contributes to an aesthetic of instability and uncertainty, without losing the original functionality of a hand-crafted wooden chair.
Photo's of the final 1:1 chair
Photo's of the 1:10 scale model
Other projects and products