Sound Chair begins as a sound that is precisely crafted to form the physical shape of a chair when visualized as a 3-dimensional object using a volume, time, frequency line plot. The life-size chair is an exact replica of the soundwave graph. The result is a product with dual existence as both a “sound” & a “chair”.

Dimensions: -31dB * 1.35s / w 80 * d 70 * h 85; Materials: polyethylene foam, water-jet cut. You can see a demo at http://www.plummerfernandez.com/. Click on “sound/chair.”

Sound/Chair is the initial stage of a project exploring the translation of furniture into sound and sound into furniture. The link between the two is that sound can be visualized as a 3-dimensional object when it is graphed mathematically on a volume/time/frequency plot. When sound is presented in this manner, the beautiful and unexplored aesthetic of sound is discovered; a landscape of spikes and shapes that vary accordingly to the type of sound. This is taken further by altering the sound’s volume, length and frequencies to create a soundwave in the shape of a chair. The end result is a chair that carries the inherited aesthetic of sound and also a chair that can be heard as a sound.

The 3-Dimensional graph is used as the lines to create the full-scale chair, made up of layers of polyethylene foam. Prototypes of the chair were exhibited in Milan this year, and the final product was launched at the London Design Festival in September and is now on sale - made to order.

Matthew Plummer Fernandez is a designer of British and Columbian nationality and runs his own design studio in Shoreditch, London. Thanks to Information Aesthetics