Year:
2025
Location:
N/A
Category:
Furniture | Stool
Overview
Design Intent
HYPERLOOP is an occasional stool exploring the structural and sculptural potential of laminated plywood bending. The project investigates how continuous curved loops—formed through press-bending and lamination—can act as self-supporting legs while creating dynamic visual rhythm. The exposed construction celebrates material flexibility and craft process, where wood grain flows uninterrupted through each bent form. Dimensions: Ø420mm × H450mm
How to create stable furniture using only bent plywood without traditional joinery or hidden fasteners?
Bent plywood furniture typically relies on metal brackets, adhesive joints, or complex lamination jigs for stability. The challenge was designing a stool where the bent legs themselves provide structural integrity through geometry and material springback—eliminating visible hardware while maintaining load-bearing capacity. The design needed to balance sculptural fluidity with functional stability, ensuring the loops distribute weight without deformation or failure.
Solution
The design employs three continuous plywood loops that intersect and interlock, creating a self-supporting tripod base through geometric distribution. Each leg is formed from multi-layer birch plywood laminations, press-bent into flowing curves that connect seat to ground in one continuous path. The interlocking loop geometry creates inherent stability—each leg braces the others, forming a rigid structure without additional components. A circular plywood seat sits atop the base, secured through concealed supports integrated into the loop structure. The result is a stool where structural necessity and visual rhythm align—material behavior and geometric precision create furniture that is both functionally resolved and sculpturally expressive.
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