A side elevation view, facing left, of a chair design on white paper drawn to scale. The chair design flows elegantly adhering to the body’s form, starting from the neck to the lumbar region where it curves away then wraps around the seat to the back of the knees, proceeding downward aligning with the legs, touching the ground then extending flush with the ground until it aligns with the back of the seat. The structure is composed of vertebrae-like wooden segments connected by elegant dovetail joints; bent areas are constructed with several smaller segments and straight areas are constructed with longer segments. The last “bone” of the chair resembles a coccyx. The spine of the chair is drawn using value shading to create the illusion of volume whereas a separate material possibly to partially cover the chair is rendered using a line drawing. There are additional notes throughout the drawing as well as a close-up view of a connecting segment in the upper left quadrant.

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Object Timeline

2012	Work on this object began.
2014	We photographed this object.
2017	We acquired this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Drawing, Design for Pantheon Chair, 2012

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Joris Laarman and fabricated by Joris Laarman Lab. It is dated 2012 and we acquired it in 2017. Its medium is graphite on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Drawing, Design for Pantheon Chair, 2012; graphite on white wove paper; Gift of Friedman Benda Gallery and Joris Laarman; 6831.1.2014
This drawing shows an early Makerchair to be fabricated by cnc-mill work. The chair is designed as a single, curving line, without conventional legs. The small detail drawing in the upper left quadrant explores how the tiles, joined by interlocking dovetails, would negotiate the chair's curve from the horizontal seat to the vertical base.

This object was donated by Friedman Benda Gallery and Joris Laarman. It is credited Gift of Friedman Benda Gallery and Joris Laarman.

Video, Making of Hexagon Makerchair
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Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.38a

Perspective rendering of an airplane cabin partition, in shades of grey and white. The three labelled components are split apart in an exploded view to show how the partition would be assembled. Connecting lines illustrate where the parts would be fastened together. At left is the 'Cabin Attendant Seat' with a simple shelf seat and two headrests. At middle is the 'Bionic Partition Cover', a thin panel with the upper outer side curved to fit the airplane cabin's shape. The outer area is mostly open, webbed with straight struts for support; at upper right is a large notched area; the lower half appears to have a square opening. At right is the 'Bionic Partition Structure', similar in shape to the Bionic Partition Cover but more open, filled with perforated struts radiating and crisscrossing between the edges and internal frame. The parts cast soft shadows on the grey background.

Bionic Partition, 2016-ongoing
partition structure, cover and cabin attendant seat; partition parts from the....
Courtesy of The Living, Airbus, Autodesk, and APWorks.
NATURE.039

Its dimensions are

99.7 × 69.9 cm (39 1/4 × 27 1/2 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Pantheon Chair, 2012; Designed by Joris Laarman (Dutch, b. 1979); Fabricated by Joris Laarman Lab; graphite on white wove paper; 99.7 × 69.9 cm (39 1/4 × 27 1/2 in.); Gift of Friedman Benda Gallery and Joris Laarman; 2017-37-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/75gmz/
Accession Number 2017-37-1
Object ID 68731077