Design on Air at the CID – centre d'innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu, Hornu
...Similarly, Formed by Air considers objects filled with air to create stable, functional forms, albeit through processes a little more involved than "standard" inflation and including projects as diverse as Jasper Morrison's gas injection moulded Air Chair for Magis, Oskar Zieta's FIDU steel inflation process as exemplified through the Plopp stool and Rondo mirror or Marcel Wanders' Sparkling Chair/Still Chair for Magis, a work which also stands as a reminder that the inspiration air provides a designer may not be enough to blow away other considerations: Wanders' original plan was to have a chair crafted, in effect, from PET bottles inflated by high pressure gas... And a decision, one assumes, Marcel Wanders wasn't overjoyed with: or as he himself phrases it ☹ Air and safety are placed in much more positive, 😃, contexts in the chapter, Air for Safety, with air discussed both as it is used directly to provide for safety, including, for example, Andreas Finke's Under the Skin pneumatic protective sport clothing or Nedda El-Asmar's double walled glassware which employs air's poor heat conduction to protect against hot liquids, but also more conceptually including Jeff Rutten's use of nautical mooring fenders for his Albatroz outdoor seating collection...