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Tokujin Yoshioka’s PANE chair is made of a sheet of plastic fibers rolled into a cardboard tube and baked in an oven to retain its shape. It was the fruit of a three-year design process in which he aimed to invent a completely new chair unlike any other. He named it after the Italian word for bread, but not only because of the fabrication process:
‘I believe that a “deliciously” comfortable PANE chair with an original feel has been baked by the innovative process of a new idea, material and structure.’
. Leo is a artist, inventor and all around practical person in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. He has a background in sculpture, architecture and industrial design as well as an MS from the Media Lab spent working on the kitchen of the future. He is on a search for truth.
