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Eindhoven-based designer Lucas Muoz combined industrial steel ventilation pipes with a copper seat salvaged from a scrapyard to create this bulbous chair. Muoz’s Tubular chair was made to study the structural potential of various industrial components. He intended to show off their capacity to carry out a task in a domestic setting. Muoz made the seat out of galvanised steel ventilation pipes, elbow connections he discovered in his workshop, and copper sheets he acquired at a junkyard.” If assembled in a way that offers some furniture function for a residential context, the industrial components’ materiality and shape – the practical methods – allow them to afford several roles.” The chair was on show as part of a Hardcore exhibition during the first edition of the 21st-century design event Collectible, which had previously taken place at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
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(2020, December 14). Tubular Furniture from Ventilation Pipes and Scrap Metal. Beautiful Life | web design, industrial design, artworks, interior design, graphic design and more. https://www.beautifullife.info/interior-design/tubular-furniture-from-ventilation-pipes-and-scrap-metal/.
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