It’s been four years in the making of the Vegetal Chair (shown above) for designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroulle; a method that included an idea, experimenting, re-thinking and more experimentation. The complex and beautiful design process also involved commitment, perseverance and support from the producers, Vitra.

I’ll give you the ‘explain-it-to-me-like-I’m a 10 year-old’ version of the design process. For the complete grown-up version visit, www.form.de.

The inspiration for the design came from the designers’ interest in a traditional 19th century North American technique, where young trees were shaped over the course of many years until they adopted the form of a chair. They came up with the idea of designing a ‘grown chair.’

Cut to four years later after the first idea emerged, the chair, made out of “fibre-reinforced polyamide” is about to be presented for the first time on November 8th and 9th at Designers’ Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland.

Ah, what I would give to go and meet these two creatives.

Some grown-up details from Form.de:

“Flat branches extend and interweave into an asymmetrical, irregular circle-shaped seating shell. The woven strips are stabilized by ribs which grow downwards and merge with the legs. Viewed from the rear the Vegetal Chair looks like a leaf with several stalks and numerous veins branching off.”

Sounds like a challenging puzzle that when all the pieces finally fall into place, is magnetically rewarding.

Congratulations to the designers for all their hard work, the producers for supporting the idea and the world for receiving Cultural Creatives (like these two) with open arms.

For more info visit: www.bouroullec.com / www.vitra.com.