The average folding chair leaves much to be desired, but when you need seating that doesn’t take up a lot of storage space, options are limited. Enter the Ollie Chair.
Designed by the mad (design) scientists at Rock Paper Robot, the chair features a clever frame that expands from a two-inch-thick slab into a wood and aluminum seat.
The genius of the design is in the chair’s slatted wood seat, called a tambour, which is flexible enough to lay flat or curve into the expanded chair. The slats are affixed to a hinged aluminum body that can fold in on itself like a collapsible crate. Pulling a cord at the back of the chair quickly pulls it from expanded to collapsed.
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And the whole thing weighs just 16 pounds—about as much as a large cat. But unlike a cat, the chair also has a built-in carrying handle, making it fairly convenient to move around. The handle-holes on the back also make it easy to hang the chair on the wall.
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Rock Paper Robot, based in Brooklyn, New York, will use the money from its Kickstarter campaign to fund the first production run of the chair, which is currently going for $300 a piece. With eight days left in the campaign, they’ve already more than doubled their goal. The company has previously introduced a futuristic aluminum table that also retracts to save space.
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