RID202 Low Rise Poly Chair

The RID202 Low Rise Ply Chair is the product of a stringent design brief. Given only a 1200mm x 600mm sheet of 9mm plywood, I was tasked to create a form of seating. The seating needed to adhere to an identified user and fill the requirements and restraints of that user, while using a minimal number of screws or nails and the smallest amount of epoxy or filler as possible. The final product was to be finished in only two layers of polyurethane coating.

The resulting chair is a very sturdy, low backed deck chair or pool-side chair that takes advantage of the material’s strengths to create curves and anthropometrically-based sizing and angles for strength, comfort, ease of production, and usability.