This is my final project as a part of my industrial design studies. This project emerged from a formal and material research that centered on stretching wood bark to extreme situations, devising new manipulations of the material and on the production method. The project carries out a technological material research that combines a soft material (foam) with a hard material (veneer) in three- dimensional press molds.

This project emerged from a formal and material research that centered on stretching wood bark to extreme situations, devising new manipulations of the material and on the production method. The project carries out a technological material research that combines a soft material (foam) with a hard material (veneer) in three-dimensional press molds. My research led to the creation of a series of seats based on this technology. resulting in a new seating experience: a softness ostensibly masked by the rigidity of the veneer, but tangible nevertheless, and a new aesthetic that emerged from the process of pressing both materials together.

I began the process of my research with a review of the world of wood-bending lamination. I visited factories that bent furniture using this method, and studied their production processes along with the industrial methods employed in this field. I played with veneer and manipulated it, subjecting it to extreme situations, experimenting with how far the veneer could be bent before it cracked.

wood veneer