OCTAGON CHAIR

date: 2018
design: Thomas Feichtner
type: chair
material: steel wire
for Design Monat Graz 2018
made by H&S Zauntechnik, Austria

As part of Graz Design Month 2018, Creative Industries Styria brought the designer Thomas Feichtner together with H+S Zauntechnik-a Styrian producer of wire fencing-to carry out a mutual project.

Their collaboration gave rise to two starkly divergent undertakings. For one thing, Thomas Feichtner entered the world of wire fencing to design a fence. But he also designed a chair, in turn bringing H+S Zauntechnik into his own design world.

For the chair, Feichtner used wire of the type that's usually welded together to produce fences as his material. In the process, he adopted a welding technique used to connect two crossed wires that is usually employed only in fence production. Feichtner's Octagon Chair forms a figure 8 made from a total of twelve looped wires that overlap only in the seating surface. A cantilever chair-made not of a single steel pipe, but rather of twelve thin, bent wires.

This project was a mutual experiment-for the producer, who doesn't usually produce furniture, and for the designer, for whom "wire fencing" was something entirely new. An experiment as the starting point for a new way of approaching things and for exchange resulting from a mutual passion for design.

The Octagon Chair is a unique piece and will be exhibited by the Universalmuseum Joanneum as part of Design Month Graz 2018.