Material: Carbon-fibre
Date: 2002
H: 800mm W: 550mm L: 530mm
Weight: 0.9-1kg

‘Bengtsson’s emphasis on craft and technology is all about the chair. Bengtsson squeezes powerfrom materials’.
Katherine E Nelson,in New Scandinavian Design.

Spun carbon-fibres randomly produce forms Bengtsson describes as ‘natural geometrical shapes’, which are exemplified in the Spun carbon-fibre chair. No moulds are used to form the chair’s signature cone shapes. The chair is produced by a fibre tow-on-line impregnated with resin and passed between two rotating discs as it is moved by a 6-axis robot arm. Together the discs spin approxiamately 50 meters of carbon-fibre on the diagonal as the chair travels through the cycles and back again. When finished, the chair is cured in an oven to toughen the fibres. Despite its substantial strength, the finished chair weighs only 800-1000 grams.