Metamorphosis Chair Fakes You Out, Rocks Your Socks

Ian Blasco Metamorphosis chair

Whapow!  Get a load of this chair.  It’s called Metamorphosis and is by Colorado-based designer and recent RISD grad Ian Blasco.  Looks like it is carved out of volcanic rock, no?  No.  Actually, the chair’s massive form is sliced by hand out of 16 layers of expanded polypropylene foam – much like styrofoam (though denser – its volume is built out of thousands of tiny tubes rather than crappy crumbly balls [trend!]).

Detail

Detail

Blasco’s design is inspired by the relationship between rectilinear manmade structures and natural forms – intentionally leaving ambiguity about which is emerging and which is being consumed.

Ian Blasco Metamorphosis chair

It definitely brings to mind that old Superstudio project from the seventies, The Continuous Monument:

Image © Archivio Superstudio

Image © Archivio Superstudio

As well as a bunch of other things.

Holy crap

Holy freaking crap

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Ian is delightful and we can’t wait to see more out of him in the future.  If you’d like to see more of him in the present, here is a bonus:

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Studio images courtesy Ian Blasco

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