Influenced by the blurring of home and work environments, RCA graduate Andre Mestre has designed an office chair made from rattan.

"This dynamism encourages you to move inside the chair, in order to avoid stress and tension caused by sitting in a fixed position for long working hours," said Mestre.
To provide a sustainable alternative to plastic office chairs, Mestre chose to construct the chair from rattan ? a fast-growing palm from Asia that has an average growth of only five to seven years and a very low-tech harvest.
Mestre is a graduate of the RCA's masters programme in Design Products ? a course which aims to educate students to become design leaders who address real-world challenges through balancing high levels of creativity and technical capability with contextual insight and empathy for people.
The Gandia chair, which is currently on display at this year's Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate exhibition, was made in collaboration with the Spanish rattan furniture manufacturer RattanDeco and the Smart Coatings company Valresa.
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