You’d never guess that the Pressed Chair was molded from one thin piece of aluminum, nor would you likely surmise that it’s partially manufactured by a company that makes automotive chassis – but both are true. Celebrating ten years of existence, the Pressed Chair designed by Harry Thaler for Moormann, is one of the brand’s crazier design ideas.
Made using a thin sheet of 2.5 mm thick aluminum, this piece of furniture was put through tests for a year and a half before being finalized. Trials, bead depth experiments, broken pressing tools, plenty of prototypes, and more were all part of its creation story. Zero rivets, screws, hooks, or eyelets are used on the Pressed Chair, it’s simply pressed into shape as the name implies! The chair’s outline is cut from an aluminum sheet before the curvatures and indentations are pressed into the material. Then the legs and backrest are molded to the correct angles for stability and comfort.
The Pressed Chair is being celebrated through 11 custom models that demonstrate how flexibly it can be used. There’s also an exhibition of the chair in the X-D-E-P-O-T of Die Neue Sammlung, also known as The Design Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
To learn more about the Pressed Chair, visit moormann.de.