Pelican
Typology: Seat, chair, armchair.
Year: 2005
Dimensions: 835 × 600 × 660 mm
Construction: An internal structure made of stainless steel tubing is wrapped by a sleeve of extensible textile.
Project type: Personal study
Status: Seeking manufacturer
When not in use Pelican stands as an sculptural object, its function is revealed as a person seats in: the fabric stretches progressively to wrap the body until the textile reaches its maximum tension.
Pelican comes from a vision I had while working on a school project in 2005. The idea was an invisible or abstract object that would reveal itself as a chair when the user would seat on it, provoking a momentum of surprise from the question to the answer.
The concept was developed progressively and transformed into the current form.
A prototype of Pelican was made and exhibited at 'LE VIA des Ecoles' in Paris in 2005.
Today I and a French manufacturer are investigating the possibility of producing and commercializing Pelican.
