Cyborg by Magis is a small polycarbonate armchair with the back in ash plywood designed by Marcel Wanders, made for indoor.
Designer Marcel Wonders and manufacturer Magis made news during Milan Design Week 2011 when Wanders released his intriguing Cyborg chair.
The provocative name references everything from robots to artificial intelligence, but with specific regard to Wanders’ piece, it evokes the combination wicker/plastic construction as, like a Cyborg,
It combines seemingly disparate parts. Cyborg and Wanders are back in the news this week with Magis’ slight tweaking of the concept: the new Cyborg is entirely made of translucent polycarbonate
Available in two colours.
Specifications
Made of polycarbonate and ash plywood.
Size Description
Seating height 46 cm (18.1″)
Height 78 cm (30.7″)
Wide 53.5 cm (21.1″)
Deep 52.5 cm (20.7″)
Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and
graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988. Currently, he is
an independent industrial product designer operating from Amsterdam where he
runs his own studio designing products and interiors for the best international
labels, including Moooi (of which he is art director), Cappellini, Bisazza,
Mandarina Duck, B&B Italia, Vitra, Kartell, Moroso, Cassina, Droog Design, Flos
and Boffi. He also works on architectural projects as well as interior design.
Wanders collaborates in other design-related projects such as the Vitra Summer
Workshop where he has served as a project leader and he is among the first and
most important designers of Droog design. Wanders has been a juror for various
prizes such as the Rotterdam Design Prize (for which his own products were
nominated several times) and the Kho Liang Ie prize. He lectured at SFMoMA,
Limn, the Design Academy, Nike, IDFA, FutureDesignDays and has taught at various
design academies in the Netherlands and abroad.