The CrossFit furniture collection by Dutch-German design duo Janne Schimmel and Moreno Schweikle turns digitally manipulated objects and surfaces into real furniture.
The two chairs in Schimmel & Schweikle's CrossFit series combine archetypal, minimalist furniture designs with organic shapes, "morphing" them together to create new forms.
CrossFit features two seats with modernist forms, adorned with blobs of artificial fur
The strict lines of the modern-style furniture that the pieces are based on is emphasised by a shiny, lacquer-like finish achieved by coating the pieces in car paint, while the blob-like upholstery additions are finished in a soft artificial fur.
Each piece is the result of a digital modelling experiment, which the designers have translated into a real object. The lacquer-like finish was achieved by applying car paint
"The 3D-modelling software allows us to 'ignore' the purpose of these volumes and freely shove different elements into each other," the designers told Dezeen.
"Rather than take two principles and unify them into one new shape we kept both form languages perfectly intact ? the only intervention being the morphing. The reference to the archetype remains clear and can be appreciated in a new way. Two seemingly different ways of thinking can be united into one piece and tell a new story where different points of view are highlighted," they continued.
"The fake fur allows us to hide the connection points bet...