Why you should implement your creative ideas

In 1968, designers from Italy Francisco Teodoro, Cesare Paolini and Piero Gatti decided to challenge the furniture industry by building something completely different from the usual boring ones. chairs...

They came up with the idea of filling a PVC bag with water. The innovative idea was liked by the industrialist Aurelio Zanotta, who proposed replacing the film with soft fabric, and water with water. filler. The thing was so simple and brilliant at the same time that it immediately became mega-popular.





Once bag-chair not called: bean chair, pear chair, frameless chair, Big Ben, pillow chair ... Its essence remains unchanged - to give comfort. With instructions from "Site" You can easily get it by sewing it yourself!





Bag chair with his own hands Technology of manufacturing frameless chair It is quite simple, anyone who has had to wield a needle can cope.

You'll need it.

• 2.5 x 1.4 m fabric for the inner cover (sufficiently dense and well stretched)
• 2.5 x 1.4 m fabric for external cover (dense cotton, velour, fabric for furniture upholstery, leather substitute)
• 200-300 liters of polystyrene foam (filler in the form of foam balls)
• 1 zipper 50 cm for internal cover
• 1 zipper 100 cm for external cover
• strand
• paper for building patterns (old wallpaper or newspaper will fit)
• 2 Velcro length of 10 cm (for fastening covers with each other)

Progress of work

1. Build it. patterning. A standard bag chair consists of 6 wedges, 2 round or hexagonal parts (upper larger, lower smaller) and a handle. The appearance of the chair will not change much from whether the bottom is round or hexagonal.
   
   
   
2. Move the pattern to fabric and cut out all the details, not forgetting about the seam tolerances (1-1.5 cm).
3. First sew the inner cover, connecting the wedges. The last stitch of lice zipper smaller in size.
4. Fill the bottom, for convenience, attaching it pre-pins to the wedges.
5. In the same way, sewing an external cover. To the inner side of the top of the whiskers 2 Velcro, and from the outside of it sew a handle. It is simple to do: cut out a rectangle from the fabric, fold it twice inside out up, stretch along the edge and turn it out.
   
   
   
6. When 2 covers are ready, you can fill the bag. polystyrene. A very important moment, because small balls tend to crumble and stick to all surfaces, and it is extremely difficult to collect them! In the hole with lightning insert the neck down the cut plastic-bottle (you get something like a funnel) and slowly mound the filler, filling the bag with 2/3 volume. You can make a funnel out of paper. Fill the bag, zip it up.
   
   
   
   
   
7. Put on the outer cover, connect the Velcro. Buckle the zipper and enjoy the wonderful chair made with your own hands!
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The embodiment of comfort and comfort! Just the same pleasure for the back and lower back, and for a pregnant tummy is generally an indispensable thing. However, over time, you will need to add more filler to keep the chair in shape.

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