AI-assisted concept

Fold

Stackable chair

Fold is cut from a single 3 mm steel sheet and folded in six steps: no welds, no screws. At the end of its life, the whole chair goes straight into steel recycling.

Category: Furniture
Materials: Recycled steel
Processes: Laser cutting, Press braking, Powder coating

Three black Fold chairs stacked, each folded from a single sheet of steel, on a dark background

Sketch sheet showing the flat steel blank with fold lines and the folded, stacked Fold chairs with dimensions — Side studies showing how each fold line turns flat sheet into seat, back and legs.

Close-up of a folded edge and the handle cut-out on Fold's black textured powder-coated steel — The folded edges act as beams, giving the thin sheet its rigidity. Textured powder coat.

Cardboard and raw sheet-metal Fold mock-ups with small scale models on a workshop bench — Cardboard and sheet-metal mock-ups to fine-tune the bend radii before tooling.

Black Fold chair in a bright concrete interior with a wooden table and tall windows — Ten chairs stack in one metre: designed for cafés, terraces and contract spaces.