Frederic Rätsch

The project ‘Flexible Sitting in Public Spaces’ aimes to create an injection moulded chair for public spaces and the contract market, that uses the high performance qualities of the flexible DuPont™ Themoplastic Elastomer Hytrel® and the tough Crastin® PBT to increase the comfort of most solid plastic chairs. It is characterised by observations of sitting behaviour, context and production technique.

To achieve an outstanding design, an extraordinary comfort and movement the goal is to design the most challenging typology of a chair - a cantilever chair. The main theme of the chair is flexible sitting, which is addressed in different scenarios - flexible in movement, flexible in context and flexible in sitting postures. So far there are only two cantilever chairs from plastic on the market and none of them is capable of providing the flexibility one would expect of a cantilever chair.