ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitra image courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

in a development process that took four years, ronan & erwan bouroullec‘s ‘vegetal’ chair for  vitra is the result of wanting to create a universal seating design for indoors and outdoors whose contours seem borrowed from nature. ‘vegetal’ features flat branch structures woven in three levels to form a round, slightly irregular seating shell. on the underside, the chair is stabilized by ribs that grow out of the supportive legs.

 

 

 

 

 ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitraimage courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

the original idea for the project came from historical gardens of the 20th century, where young trees grew into furniture-like structures through continual care and deliberate pruning. the guiding question for the designers was how to construct a chair that would most closely approximate the idea of a grown chair.

 

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitraimage courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

one of the important stages in the process consisted in transforming the branch sections, circular at the outset, into a t-profile. this solution gives better structural qualities whilst at the same time meeting the demands of injection fluidity.

 

‘vegetal’ chair is  made from durable die-cast fibre- reinforced polyamide.

 

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitrathe chair is stackableimage courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitraimage courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitraimage courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitrathe chair is for both indoor and outdoor useimage courtesy of vitra

 

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitra ‘vegetal chair’ by ronan & erwan bouroullec image © designboom

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitra detail of the branch-like woven seating image © designboom

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitraunderside of the chairimage © designboom

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitra drawings of the vegetal chair image courtesy ronan & erwan bouroullec

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitra various concept sketches of vegetal chair image courtesy ronan & erwan bouroullec

 

 

ronan & erwan bouroullec: vegetal chair for vitra various structures of vegetal chair image courtesy ronan & erwan bouroullec