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No Need to Pop Bottles When You Have the Bouchon Chair

03.17.14 | By
No Need to Pop Bottles When You Have the Bouchon Chair

It’s time to start poppin… chairs?

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Yup. The Bouchon Chair is a cork-based chair that’s inspired by a bottle cap. Designed by Radice & Orlandini for Domitalia, it’s modeled after the iconic champagne cork. Its recognizable shape makes it easy for everyone to embrace, and also gives it potential to become a lasting classic.

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The cork seat sits in the metal legs without the need for screws, which takes advantage of the natural friction of the material, just like a real champagne cork. When Domitalia came up with the idea of cork, they instinctively devised a shape in which the mind’s eye is inseparable from the material itself. Thus, the bottle cap chair.

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Bouchon won the international 2013 Good Design Award.

After surviving a quarter life crisis, Nanette went from working in healthcare canadian meds to pursuing her loves of design, food and writing. During the day she works in social media marketing, by night she writes for Design Milk. You can find more of her work at nanettewong.com.