Metamorphosis Chair Fakes You Out, Rocks Your Socks
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!]).
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.

It definitely brings to mind that old Superstudio project from the seventies, The Continuous Monument:
As well as a bunch of other things.
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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