Design Secrets: Furniture

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In the case of the Lazy Chair, the material she fell in love with was

a synthetic honeycomb fabric used for terrain embankment filters.

Urquiola not only found the dimensionality of the material visu-

ally interesting, but its functional properties allowed her to make

a chair that was weather resistant, extremely light, and reduced

fabrication costs.

“My aim,” Urquiloa notes, “is to domesticate industrial material

and create objects that are interesting, pleasing, appealing. The

material is important, but I don’t think the use of a new material

can guarantee, on its own, the newness of a product. ...