Lanuda Chair

With Lanuda chair, Riccardo Blumer evolves his design research on seats, moving from the wood of Laleggera designed in 1996 to aluminium.
Even if Laleggera and Lanuda embody the same principle of essential subtraction – the former employing minimal wood thicknesses in a box structure, the latter using aluminium sheets crafted following a reticu- lar logic – it is with Lanuda that this research reaches its extreme limit. The seat takes shape from ten aluminium sheets with a thickness of just 2 mm, which undergo a process of laser cutting and drilling to the maximum possible limit, reducing the surface area to a minimum and making the seat, in fact, nude, in italian ?La-nuda? means ?The-nude?.
The result is a stackable chair characterised by a rich and complex desi- gn. A special processing of aluminium creates a series of triangulations with structural membranes that are folded and secured by mechanical rivets.