The Devil’s Chair
We’re no angels… Ok, we’ll admit it. Even we ourselves sometimes feel like there’s a little bit of a devil inside us. Not a big one, not a very bad one, but a small little devil that kicks us very hard in the side every morning when we’re supposed to be polite to the man wearing too much cologne on the bus ride to work. Designer Rendy Himawan knows the feeling: he created a chair based on this very idea and called it the Devil’s Chair.
“I attended a class by Prof. Imam Buchori, and he said that design should be able to give a social message to society. With the chair I want to say that we have something bad in us in some way. So, we deserve to sit in this Devil’s Chair, regardless what job we have. Politicians, lawyers, designers, architects, we are a devil in some way.”
Rendy Himawan
Now the chair Himawan designed, was presented at the Biennale Desain & Kriya in Jakarta (the first ever in Indonesia), last December, where it was shown amid a selection of fashion items, textiles, architecture, and other furniture.
The Devil’s Chair by Rendy Himawan
The Devil’s Chair by Rendy Himawan
The Devil’s Chair by Rendy Himawan
Why are we so eager to tell you this? Because the i.materialise team helped the designer in his creative quest by printing a small prototype of the Diavolo chair in prime gray, some time ago, providing Rendy a real life object he could use to elaborate his final design. The result is a chair with a solid rod wireframe, weaved artificial rattan for a seat, and a CNCed back made from ABS plastic. These are the kind of projects that make all of us here at i.materialise really love our job.
3D printed prototype
3D printed prototype
Do you want to deal with your devils yourself and design some of your own fantasies? Let us know in the comments.
