Design Secrets: Furniture

“I wanted to make something of an organic shape so it would feel

soft to your body, but is not upholstered. It is hard, but shaped

around your body so it feels soft when you sit in it.”

The result of this original concept was an easy chair made while

still in design school. The hard part of the chair was made of

painted MDF (medium density fiberboard), between which Wann-

fors sandwiched pieces of felt. “The felt stood up a little bit, so

that’s what you sat on,” he notes. He made this prototype him-

self, working with a metal manufacturer. “At first,” he says, “they

couldn’t understand how it would turn into a seat from the draw-

ings. But afterwards, ...