{"id":93438,"date":"2025-08-24T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93438\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:46:22","slug":"industrial-designer-jonas-formans-no-foam-o2-lounge-chair-for-hay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93438\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Designer Jonas Forman’s No-Foam O2 Lounge Chair for Hay"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Quick, think of a famous lounge chair.<\/p>\n

What did you picture? The Barcelona, the Eames, the Egg, the Wegner Shell? Chances are it contains foam.<\/p>\n

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If you want to name a famous lounge chair design without foam, you practically have to go back to 1925, to Breuer’s Wassily.<\/p>\n

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Now, 100 years later, perhaps we’re ready for another. Swedish industrial designer Jonas Forman has designed this O2 Lounge Chair<\/a> for Hay. Forman, who favors using a minimum of materials, challenged himself to design a comfortable lounge chair that relies not on foam, but on clever use of materials. A carefully-designed fabric shell is pulled taut over a tubular steel frame, “forming a voluminous shape that adapts to the user’s posture while providing firm support.”<\/p>\n

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In this brief chat Forman discusses his material-driven approach to design, where he studies the behavior and properties of a material before he determines the form:<\/p>\n

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