{"id":38699,"date":"2013-08-23T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/hangzhou-stool-by-min-chen-is-not-as-delicate-as-it-looks\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:38:24","slug":"hangzhou-stool-by-min-chen-is-not-as-delicate-as-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/hangzhou-stool-by-min-chen-is-not-as-delicate-as-it-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangzhou Stool by Min Chen is not as delicate as it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.45em\">Min Chen is an industrial designer based in Beijing. And while<br \/>\nthat may not evoke too much envy in designers based in cities with a heavy industrial<br \/>\nlegacy like Munich or Boston, the region around it is quite well known for what<br \/>\nthe western world would consider unusual building material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1_odlwb.jpg\" style=\"cursor: default\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bamboo is one such sustainable resource found in Beijing which<br \/>\nis fast gaining credence as a genuine wood (it\u2019s a grass though!) good for the construction<br \/>\nof furniture and our friend Chen has used it to create a stunning new stool<br \/>\ncalled the Hangzhou Stool.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2_xeyt7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: default\"><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the stool doesn\u2019t look anything out of the ordinary<br \/>\nand many would argue that it couldn\u2019t be all that hard to fashion a similar<br \/>\nstool out of ash or mahogany. But that is where this stool is so different from<br \/>\nany other. You see, the stool is made from bamboo veneer and if you\u2019ve ever seen<br \/>\na, er, log of bamboo, you know just how delicate a process it might be to get<br \/>\nveneer out of it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3_fxlhd.jpg\" style=\"cursor: default\"><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s even more remarkable is that the bamboo veneer used<br \/>\nin this stool is just 0.9mm thick. Fortunately, Chen had the good sense to try<br \/>\nnot to focus too much on the delicate aspect of his basic material and gave the<br \/>\nstool\u2019s design several layers of it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4_udv1g.jpg\" style=\"cursor: default\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re guessing that was mostly so that if the top layer<br \/>\nbreaks, the user doesn\u2019t fall flat on the floor and hurt their bum (with possible<br \/>\nsplinter injury to the area as well!) Bent in an arc, the flexible stool<br \/>\nactually is quite sturdy and even allows the seat to bend and shape around the shape<br \/>\nand weight of the users\u2019 bottoms!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5_y3gmz.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6_ktm6e.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hometone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/7_d7av7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: default\"><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Min Chen is an industrial designer based in Beijing. And while<br \/>\nthat may not evoke too much envy in designers based in cities with a heavy industrial<br \/>\nlegacy like Munich or Boston, the region around it is quite well known for what<br \/>\nthe western world would co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1622],"tags":[2050,4705,4706,4707,4708],"class_list":["post-38699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-furniture","tag-bamboo","tag-beijing","tag-hangzhou-stool","tag-min-chen","tag-stool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/homeguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}