Design Secrets: Furniture

When design partners Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd decided to

apply this strategy for innovation to what Pearson calls the “old

and established archetype” of a cantilevered chair, they set out

first to understand why so little had changed in the chairs’ design

over the years. Their answer lay in the materials. “The steel tubes

at the heart of these chairs are a very easy material to use. It’s

cheap and works well,” says Pearson, “However, in the last five to

seven years, there’s been huge development in plastic technol-

ogy. The reason for working in plastics is that most cantilevered

chairs have a welded structure when you get to the seat. Welding

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