Name: Tubular chair
Brand: Andu Masebo
Price: 3800.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Andu Masebo, product designer from London with a background in carpentry, metalwork and ceramics. Having previously worked in the fabrication industries before completing a masters in product design at the Royal College of Art, he often shifts between the role of the designer and the maker as a way of generating ideas that make connections between the two. His experience rooted in the practicalities of making things has informed a practice engaged with the way objects come to be, the conditions under which things are produced and the wider systems that dictate their context beyond their production. Andu’s work is characterised by simplicity and efficiency, with an aim to tell clear & accessible stories around his design practice. This emphasis on storytelling aims to shorten the distance between the process of making things and the way they can be understood by their eventual audience.

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Made from 3 inch stainless steel tubes used in the production of car exhausts. The Tubular chair is a result of conversations back and forth between car exhaust fabricators over a number of years. In order to utilise their focused expertise, the chair works around a set of machining limitations defined by the production of car exhaust systems. It was designed to the technical constraints of mandrel bent tubular steel and intentionally bears the hallmarks of its making process. The seat of the chair is made from recycled chip rubber, often found in the automotive industry, which was cast around a metal plate and connected to the underside of the steel frame.