用气球代替钉子和螺钉来稳固儿童家具
Balloons replace nails and screws for Inflate collection of children's furniture

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英国金斯顿大学研究生Fern Toynton利用香肠状的气球来组装儿童家具和玩具。

每个充气工具包带有一系列的山毛榉板条孔。这些部件是与五颜六色的造型气球结合在一起的，气球通过孔洞膨胀，在不需要钉或螺钉的情况下形成灵活的关节。

Sausage-shaped party balloons are used to secure the self-assembly furniture and toys designed by Kingston University graduate Fern Toynton.
Each Inflate kit comes with a series of beechwood slats with holes cut through them. The pieces are made to be held together with colourful modelling balloons, which are inflated through the holes to create flexible joints without the need for nails or screws.

“如果你将东西穿过一个孔，它膨胀的两侧会使之成为一个关节，从而不易拔出，”Toynton解释说。

Toynton毕业于金士顿产品和家具设计课程，他希望项目是具有趣味性的，包括实际操作的装配过程。

"If you inflate something through a hole it creates a joint because it inflates on both sides, making it difficult to pull out or remove the inflated piece," Toynton explained.
Toynton, who graduated from Kingston's product and furniture design course, wanted the items to be playful – both during the assembly process and when they're finished.

“对产品反映过程的活泼性是至关重要的，所以我做了它的字面游戏作为儿童玩具，”她告诉Dezeen。

“当我把这个玩具给一群孩子，他们的奶奶说，这是第一个所有孩子都喜欢在一起玩的玩具，因为这实在太吸引他们了。”

"It was crucial for the product to reflect the playful nature of the process, so I made it literally playful as a children's building toy," she told Dezeen.
"When I trialled this toy with a group of children, their grandmother stated that it was the first toy which all of them enjoyed to play with together as all found it equally as engaging."

充气箱附有说明书，里面包括给用户的建议，他们可以——创造包括不承重的家具——但Toynton指出，目的是鼓励创新和探索膨胀型体。

“玩具需要不止一个人来建造它，”她补充道。这鼓励了孩子们用在电子设备上花费的大量时间在这里进行团队合作。”

这些孔洞的设计也意味着这些碎片可以附着在孩子们周围的其他东西上，比如椅子腿或门把手。

The Inflate kit is accompanied by an instruction manual. It gives users suggestions of what they can make – including types of furniture that are not load-bearing – but Toynton notes that the aim of Inflate is to encourage creativity and exploration.
"The toy requires more than one person to build it," she added. "This encourages teamwork in a time where children spend a lot of time on electronic devices."
"The holes also mean the pieces can be attached to other things around the children, such as chair legs or door handles."

同样受气球启发的还有荷兰设计师Marten Baas，他收集了手工吹制的玻璃吊灯的形状，而韩国设计师Seung Jin Yang利用颜色鲜艳的气球创造充气座椅。

近年来，儿童家具已成为一个日益增长的产品类别。2016年瑞士工作室Big-Game介绍成长的椅子，它可以随着孩子的成长进行调整，而荷兰品牌Teehee探索类似的概念也生产了Illa和illeta家具。

The shapes of party balloons also influenced Dutch designer Marten Baas' collection of hand-blown glass pendant lamps, while South Korean designer Seung Jin Yang coated brightly coloured balloons in resin to create inflated seats.
Children's furniture has been a growing product category in recent years. In 2016, Swiss studio Big-Game introduced the Little Big Chair, which can be adjusted as kids grow, while Dutch brand Teehee explored a similar concept with the Illa and Illeta furniture.

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