向“锡罐精髓”致敬的“薄如纸张”的凳子
Paperthin stool celebrates "the essence of the classic tin can"

由专筑网王帅，李韧编译

Lennart和Lauren Leerdam设计了一款凳子，这款凳子是一批拥有“理想”美学的标准批量生产的锡罐。

这张凳子名为“薄如纸张”（Paperthin），它由0.5毫米厚的锡金属板制成，并且通过板材上的瓦楞加强强度。

The "desirable" aesthetic of a standard mass-produced tin can has informed the shape of this stool designed by Lennart and Lauren Leerdam.
Called Paperthin, the stool is made from a 0.5 millimetre sheet of tin metal that has been reinforced by corrugating its surface.



埃因霍芬设计学院的毕业生Lennart和Lauren Leerdam经营着ll'atelier设计工作室，他们想要设计一个简约的家具项目，在参考了锡罐的生产过程后，他们认为这是“大规模工业生产的标志”。

两位设计师说到：“就像大众工业产品一样，锡罐的生产过程中也有奇迹。”

Design Academy Eindhoven graduates Lennart and Lauren Leerdam, who run design studio ll'atelier, wanted to create a minimalist furniture item that references the production process of a tin can, which they describe as the "biggest icon in industrial mass production".
"Like almost every product that is fully accepted and produced by the mass industry there are wonders in [the tin can's] process," said the designers.



两位设计师将带有线状凹痕的大型激光切割锡板压制成凳子，这确保了张力的均匀分布。

然后，他们在Deventer的工作室里用一系列手工操作的机器将金属板材弯曲成凳子的形状。

The pair created the stool by pressing a large laser-cut sheet of tin metal with linear indents to ensure the tension was equally distributed across the material's surface.
The sheet metal was then bent into the shape of a stool using a series of hand-operated machines in the designers' workshop in Deventer, an industrial city in the Netherlands.



设计师使用了Leerdam 3D打印定制的冲压模具，保证了椅子的制造精度。所有的凳子都是由四大块金属板与八个小型支撑构件组成。

随后，设计师手工组装了凳子，这要求两个人不断地推拉金属片，将张力均匀分散在凳子中。

他们说：“当你对金属进行拉伸和收缩时，材料就会发生变形，从而将应力从一个点引导到材料的另一个点。”

“因此，整个组装过程必须不断地调整金属，从而让应力均匀分布。”

The Leerdams 3D-printed bespoke pressing moulds to create support pieces for the stool. All together the stool is constructed from four large pieces of metal, with eight smaller supporting elements.
The stool is then assembled by hand, which requires the pair to push and pull the metal pieces to distribute the tension across the body of the stool.
"When you force the metal with a process where it has to stretch and shrink the material will deform itself to guide the stress to another point of the material," they said.
"So with the assembling of every part you also have to work and massage the metal to organise the tension in an equally divided arrangement."



与锡罐一样，缩进的细节增强了外观的观赏性，强化了金属的强度，将美学和功能完美地结合在一起。

设计师强调：“在视觉属性方面，这是理想的对象，它具有精致的细节，并有着重要的功能。”

As with a tin can, the indented detailing enhances the appearance and strengthens the metal, marrying aesthetic value and function.
"In terms of the visual properties it is a desirable object with beautiful details which all have an important function," said the pair about the appeal of the tin can.



他们还说：“在功能上证明这一点的最好方法莫过于一件符合人体工程学的家具。”

该产品有八种颜色，即藏青色、蓝色、橙色、黄色、青色、浅灰色、深灰色和黑色，它们将会在伦敦设计博览会的荷兰材料展上展出，这也属于2018年伦敦设计节。

"There was no better way to functionally prove and present this than by a furniture piece that could hold a human body," they continued.
The resulting product is available in eight colours: navy blue, blue, orange, yellow, green, light grey, dark grey and black, and was on show at the Dutch Stuff display at London Design Fair, part of London Design Festival 2018.



荷兰最近的一些毕业生项目有Anna Aagaard Jensen设计的一系列为女性争取更多空间的椅子，还有Ellie Birkhead在Chiltern丘陵用废料制成的砖。

Other projects from the latest batch of graduates from the Dutch school include Anna Aagaard Jensen's series of chairs that encourage women to claim more space with their bodies and Ellie Birkhead's Building The Local bricks made from waste materials in the Chiltern Hills.