Dale Fenton

241 chair

2-for-1 chair was designed as an exploration of adaptive furniture as well as digital fabrication. investigations of different mechanisms for the transformation of the chair included sliding, folding, and pivoting, among others. in the end the chair consists of two sets of legs and slats that are nested into each other. this generates a single chair in the closed configuration and a two-seat chair when the slats are opened. a prototype chair was fabricated from plywood contours to study the adequacy of the overall system, which is not indicative of the final material nature of the design but approximates the form for a low-cost full-scale mock-up.