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This wooden stool integrates a bouncy ball into its design so you stay active while sitting and working!

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Bounce is a work stool that incorporates a bouncy ball into its seat rest so you can bounce while sitting – almost like a fidget spinner for your butt.

Whether you’re sitting at a computer desk or an art studio desk–if you’re there for long periods at a time, then some fidgeting is sure to come. Without a fidget spinner for our bottoms, we revert to leg bouncing and tipping our chairs to calm down some of our restlessness. To make more relaxing work stools, Montreal-based industrial designer Antoine Jeraj designed Bounce, a chair with a slight bounce to increase comfort and productivity during the workday.

Innovative chair designs are hard to come by since chairs have been around for centuries. Jeraj’s Bounce seems like an innovative chair design for its solution-based conception. Built from a piece of wood with an elastic profile, Jeraj integrated a bouncy ball between the curved seat rest and chair legs to allow users to bounce while sitting. Broken down into four main components, Bounce keeps a simple, yet artful build.

Three footrests connect the chair’s four legs, which bolster the chair’s curved seat rest and a built-in bouncy ball. The simple design of Bounce enhances its approachability and functions as a familiar sight for those who don’t want to venture too far outside of conventional work stools. The chair has a natural, wooden look too, which reinforces its versatility and makes it a work stool that could fit into almost any office or studio.

Not a day goes by that we don’t use a chair. Around for centuries, we’ve relied on them for rest and productivity for as long as we can remember. Work stools in particular are designed with comfort and efficiency in mind to provide the ultimate place of rest during workdays. Interpreting the work stool for today, Antoine Jeraj designed Bounce as a simple and artful work stool that delivers on both comfort and practicality.

Designer: Antoine Jeraj

This chair is assembled with a cargo strap – no hardware, screws, no glue, no packaging!

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The TEMP chair has been designed as an eco-focused seating solution that makes use of an unlikely material to blend packaging and assembly into one piece. The chair is made by cutting OSB (oriented strand board) and is assembled by tying a single cargo strap with ratchets. The luggage strap, which can withstand more than 700kg, makes for a super sturdy chair without the use of screws, glue, or any hardware!

OSB is stronger and more waterproof than plywood. It is a versatile, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly alternative manufactured by compressing precisely engineered strands of woods with exterior resins at high temperatures to create an incredibly strong panel.

The cargo strap is also used to wrap the panels effectively reducing packaging for the chair. The five panels that make up the chair can be grouped together, and one panel has a handle, so it can be easily moved while packed.

It is designed to be wider than the existing chair, so you can take a break in various postures, and the lower part of the seat can be used as a storage space.

The reasonably priced OSB has enough strength to make up the chair, and the wood chip pattern makes it hard to see scratches, so it could be shipped without additional packaging.

Joo Hoyoung said, “I ordered plywood cut from a carpentry shop. I tied the cut plywood with a cargo string to bring home. When I came home, I untied the string, put the plywood in the right place, and tied the string again. I am sitting in the chair that has been completed just like that and writing this!” – could it BE any simpler?!

Designer: Joo Hoyoung

This chair is assembled with a cargo strap – no hardware, screws, no glue, no packaging!

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The TEMP chair has been designed as an eco-focused seating solution that makes use of an unlikely material to blend packaging and assembly into one piece. The chair is made by cutting OSB (oriented strand board) and is assembled by tying a single cargo strap with ratchets. The luggage strap, which can withstand more than 700kg, makes for a super sturdy chair without the use of screws, glue, or any hardware!

OSB is stronger and more waterproof than plywood. It is a versatile, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly alternative manufactured by compressing precisely engineered strands of woods with exterior resins at high temperatures to create an incredibly strong panel.

The cargo strap is also used to wrap the panels effectively reducing packaging for the chair. The five panels that make up the chair can be grouped together, and one panel has a handle, so it can be easily moved while packed.

It is designed to be wider than the existing chair, so you can take a break in various postures, and the lower part of the seat can be used as a storage space.

The reasonably priced OSB has enough strength to make up the chair, and the wood chip pattern makes it hard to see scratches, so it could be shipped without additional packaging.

Joo Hoyoung said, “I ordered plywood cut from a carpentry shop. I tied the cut plywood with a cargo string to bring home. When I came home, I untied the string, put the plywood in the right place, and tied the string again. I am sitting in the chair that has been completed just like that and writing this!” – could it BE any simpler?!

Designer: Joo Hoyoung

The ‘Pad’ transforms from a simple flat wooden slab to a complete folding chair!

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Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

The Pad Chair transforms from a benign wooden mat into a neat chair with a backrest! Made from multiple wooden strips joined together in a rather unique way, the Pad Chair possesses the ability to transform from a flat, 2D shape into a neat, comfortable 3D chair. I’m sure there’s a locking system in place that allows the chair to lock in either closed or open positions, but for now, the Pad Chair provides a radical alternative to those ugly metal foldable chairs (the kind you’d see in wrestling matches). What the Pad Chair offers as an alternative looks incredibly classy, in both its closed as well as open versions!

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

The chair’s ingenuity lies in its simple, minimalist compact design. It isn’t made to look utilitarian when closed (like most foldable chairs do), but rather, assumes the avatar of a flat, wooden plank or slab when closed (quite like the Ollie Chair from RockPaperRobot). In its closed form, the Pad Chair occupies 1/11th of the space as it would when opened, allowing you to easily store multiple chairs together in your compact apartment, saving up on space.

The Pad Chair is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2021.

Designer: Shaohan Yang

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

Similar Innovations

The Ollie Chair by RockPaperRobot opens with a ‘swish and a flick’!

This minimal wooden stubby chair brings the original park bench home!

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Do you remember when park benches were actually just stubs of chopped trees or creatively placed wooden logs? I remember my mom could tell I had been to the park because my clothes smelled like wood and grass, and that is exactly what this beautiful stubby chair reminds me of! This chair is an amazing display of nostalgia and minimalism through furniture design.

The designer wanted to incorporate our inherent ways of interacting with nature into a chair. Stubby chair was inspired by these environmental settings that combined the love for interiors with an element from the exterior world. Nature is the best designer (for the most part!) so observing nature gives the designer a lot of clues and points of directions where they should pay attention so it fits seamlessly into our lives. “Over time, you settle down with some household items, borrowed from nature. At the same time, you understand that the world is changing and you are changing with it,” she says describing the simplistic design which can age with time.

It is about looking at a familiar object through a different lens. Stubby chair brings back that attention to the details and functions of a sturdy chair. What would be a wooden chair would now be considered outdated so the incorporation of the metal pipes shows the same wooden chair in a modern light. “Do not be attached to the place and time. Do not endow the item with any particular style because of its deposit and burden it with the historical era in which the item was created,” says the designer on the product’s evergreen design along with the philosophy behind it.

Designer: Nissa Kinzhalina