Taiwan: Red Dot Design Award Winner Breathes New (Plant) Life Into Chair Design

“Re: Industrial Design graduate Yu-Ying Wu, Tatung University, Taiwan

“Taipei-based industrial designer Yu-Ying Wu’s Breathing Chair resembles a block of aerated tofu. Closer inspection reveals that the triangular voids vary in size, and their placement has been carefully calculated; the large triangles at the top-front-center “give” the most, creating a chair-like shape when compressed by a human body.

Wu’s chair, inspired by plant cells, took home a Red Dot Design Award in the home furniture design concept category earlier this year.”

via Core77 via cctv

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