Ribbon

DESIGN: Jan Lutyk

Poland

make me! 2012

Main prize make me! Paradyż Award in the amount of PLN 20,000

Special prize sponsored by Interprint – Interprint Furniture Days workshops at the company’s headquarters in Arnsberg, Germany

Ribbon is an innovative approach to a traditional material ─ plywood, which we bend in three directions. The organic form results from the behaviour of the material ─ the layers of veneer follow the natural shape of the wood grain. The object looks like it was made from a single ‘ribbon’ of plywood, but for the purposes of production it was divided into pieces. The two pressed modules form one leg, and the three identical legs make up the seat. The profiles seek to attain a convex shape, as opposed to typical plywood products made up of flat elements; this means we can use less material to obtain a similar stiffness. Ecological and economical at the same time. We used wood from a local beech tree. The stool can be stacked.