Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

(paculdo.com)

107 points | by surprisetalk 4 days ago

21 comments

  • PetitPrince 14 hours ago
    Since they rely on curves for the sitting surface, they should have done a proper saddle chair shape instead. The current design prioritize the manufacturer/corporation over the user/human. This is a failure on my book.
    • virtualritz 14 hours ago
      Indeed, looks super uncomfy.

      And yeah, I helped a friend who's a furniture designer [1] for a few years.

      After a while, when you 'beta test' pieces in development a lot, you understand that looks are great but comfort always wins.

      [1] https://www.saschaulber.com/works/

    • jszymborski 10 hours ago
      In my mind, the chair is meant to deform some, such that the curved seat gives a bit. But that might just be in my mind
      • stronglikedan 7 hours ago
        I think you're correct. I think it would form sort of an upside down W shape when sat on, but with softer curves, and no edges digging into the user.
  • bcraven 13 hours ago
    Non-curved model that can be made from a single piece of plywood:

    https://store.bigguyinatinyhouse.com/products/flat-folding-c...

    • stoobs 12 hours ago
      Yup, that wins in simplicity, but a deckchair is almost as simple, and is a lot more comfortable
    • jszymborski 10 hours ago
      This looks impossibly uncomfortable though. The backrest looks like it's pushing you off the seat and the chairs legs look like they'd pin in your own. No thanks!!
      • munificent 9 hours ago
        Not super comfortable, but it has the advantage of being easily disassembled too. It's a folding chair, so you can stuff a stack of them in an attic and bring them out when you need to seat a bunch of people. Paculda's design looks like it makes shipping cheaper, but doesn't otherwise provide benefit.
    • northernsausage 12 hours ago
      This should be the top response tbh.
  • nkrisc 13 hours ago
    In the thumbnail concept sketch it shows someone sitting in it with their arm hanging over one of the “armrests”. What the sketch doesn’t convey is the blood flow to their arm being cut off.
    • madaxe_again 12 hours ago
      If it doesn’t give you Saturday night palsy it isn’t a chair
  • kjellsbells 14 hours ago
    I don't love it immediately, and yes, in fiberglass this chair doesnt sound too comfortable. But if it were made in leather, I could see it becoming very comfortable indeed, and the keather would also nod to the very obvious saddle shape.

    (Always good to see common objects reimagined, even if they might not seem "right", they get a conversation started.)

    • lopis 12 hours ago
      Leather would not provide the tension needed for this. You'd need a core maybe of something else.
      • stronglikedan 7 hours ago
        Ok, leather over carbon fiber, for the wealthy.
  • glimshe 15 hours ago
    This person is very talented but that chair looks super uncomfortable. Resting you arms on those thin armrests will hurt within seconds. But that's exactly the type of furniture my mom loves :)
    • Gravityloss 14 hours ago
      A lot of other modern furniture looks like it was just the default in CAD. Ie completely rectangular arm rests with sharp edges etc. I get that a car like Ford Sierra looked featureless and too simple in its time, I guess it seemed like lazy design. Where were all the trims and grilles and fenders and in general the "borders between things"? But I think it didn't hurt its usability.
  • stoobs 12 hours ago
    That looks awfully uncomfortable, I suspect that it will rapidly fall apart under stress and leave nice sharp splinters of fibreglass everywhere, including in your skin.
  • esperent 16 hours ago
    It's cool but that rounded seat looks very uncomfortable. I could imagine it as a great item for a child's room though, if they could build it themselves from the flat sheet.
  • poody 12 hours ago
    I love the way it looks.. but I did not think about how it may feel.. It could be a MOMA piece tho..
  • archerx 14 hours ago
    I wish they had shown a real version of the chair with a real human sitting on it.
    • nntwozz 13 hours ago
      I came here to post the same thing, this is the only thing that matters.

      "I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive."

      - Tyrell, Blade Runner 1982

  • QuantumNoodle 13 hours ago
    What an awesome website!
  • layer8 9 hours ago
    At first it appears to be a single part, but it’s really four parts, plus twelve connector pins.
  • oliveiracwb 9 hours ago
    As publicidades que mais odeio: Internet (roubam sua privacidade, lateralizam seu pensamento). Embalagens (prefiro as embalagens Dharma, militares e soviéticas: sem cores ou textura, so informações). E de produtos: a mais pura inovação (o lixo da minha cidade é cheio de inovações). A que mais vou odiar no futuro: as embutidas na IA.
  • WalterGR 11 hours ago
    > Made from durable fiberglass panels

    What sort of fiberglass bends as much as depicted without breaking?

    • Exoristos 9 hours ago
      Fiberglass can be made with all kinds if resins, including flexible ones.
  • poody 12 hours ago
    Come for the chair.. stay for the statues dressed in clothes.. made my day
  • smusamashah 15 hours ago
    The screws on the bottom will be under lots of strain I imagine
    • rob74 15 hours ago
      Also, depending on how flexible the material is, it looks like those screws might scratch the floor on which the chair sits?
    • stavros 13 hours ago
      And, unfortunately, strain in the wrong direction, as the bottom plate will want to flatten out. It doesn't look like this chair will last more than a few days before dropping you on the screws.
  • kleiba2 14 hours ago
    Except that I just don't subscribe to the idea that flatpackedness should be the guiding principle of furniture design.
  • meindnoch 14 hours ago
    Looks extremely uncomfortable and unstable.
  • conartist6 14 hours ago
    Nice tall backrest, angled inward so that only the top corner slices into your back and nothing else makes contact.

    ...Also I hope you don't have any bones in your butt

  • speps 16 hours ago
    • dang 7 hours ago
      Ok, I've made that link the top one (even though you have to scroll down to find the flat chair) and moved the submitted link to the top text.

      Thanks!

    • alphakappa 8 hours ago
      Thank you. The original website is a uniquely awful ad-infested page.
  • dvar 9 hours ago
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  • aaron695 15 hours ago
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