Curt
A beautiful minimalist thought: to use qualities of the environment as part of your design, so you can leave out parts that you would otherwise consider fundamental.
In this case, the Curt deck chair by Swiss design studio BERNHARD | BURKARD, uses leaning to do away with the minimum requirement of a third leg on a chair.
The anti-slip coated stand provides safe grip on every surface, B|B ensures us, even though it looks dangerous.
Now, if only the beach had more walls to lean against…
- 04.07.2011 .
- Maarten P. Kappert .
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- Category:
- Furniture design
- Object:
- Chair + Deck chair
- Agency:
- BERNHARD | BURKARD
- Other attributes:
- Leaning
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- 5 comments
I was thinking about featuring this too. It does look a little unstable, but I’m sure it has been well tested. Very nice.
“Everything old is new again” and “nobody reads books anymore” apply here. Check out Victor Papanek’s and James Hennessey’s 1974 book “Nomadic Furniture 2″ for their Lean-To chair complete with picture of a 1970s mini-skirted babe.
True their version is clunky and not as refined as but at least it is adjustable.
Both the Papanek/Hennesey version and this one provide no support for the spine and allow it to slump into a body distorting C-shape harmful to skeletal-muscular structures (particularly in children) as outlined in Galen Cranz’ book “The Chair”.
Problem is you always need a grippy floor and stuff – imagine this on a polished concrete floor leaned against a fresh painted wall .. so more of an outdoor thing to me as shown on the pics.
like its clean look though..
So I’m heading to the beach with my Curt deck chair and there are no walls to lean it up against. Now what do I do?
Sorry but this is pointless, bad design.
On another note, how big is it? That girl looks like a Borrower!
I think it’s really cool! This would be perfect for a small apartment or a balcony with not a lot of space.