Unusual, innovative and avant-garde approaches to seating were among the highlights of Dutch design fair Object Rotterdam, which took place earlier this month. Anna Winston picks six of the most intriguing chairs from the annual event's crop of up-and-coming talent.

Inflatable Leather by Satomi Minoshima
This collection of inflatable leather chairs by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Satomi Minoshima proposes a new luxury and long-lasting take on blow-up furniture.
Hard-wearing cow leather covers an inflatable rubber inner-tube, with the idea that the material will age and become more desirable over time.
"I believe that inflatable products have the potential to fit our present lifestyle, which is becoming more and more nomadic," said Minoshima. "However, inflatable products have a short lifespan and the vinyl material often looks cheap, even though it is made well."
DMS-6 chair by Matteo Dal Lago
DMS-6 is a chair that is designed by both man and machine. Chinese 3D-printing firm Shining3D asked Matteo Dal Lago to develop a product that could show the potential of SLA printing ? where objects are created by curing liquid resin with light.
He designed a scale model of a chair in chicken wire and scanned it to make a printable file, allowing the software to create a solid surface and fill in its own details in areas where it struggled to read the fine metal mesh.
"I'm designing the soul of the object," said Dal Lago. "You can scan it as...