Phaeton Chair

Kyle Wilkinson Studio Phaeton Chair Design

A showpiece chair design for the Enlightened Exhibition, and ‘ Furniture Design Of The Year’ contender

Art Direction
Conceptualising
Exhibition Design
Product Design

Pushing Perspex’s limits

It all started with a desire to design something different. Something that was real, tangible, that didn’t live on a wall.

We created, the Phaeton Chair, for Enlightened – an exhibition exploring laser cutting in design. Elegant and graphic from one angle, whilst detailed & intricate from another, the entire chair is made of clear, 12mm Perspex® and is made up of 77 individual pieces. 

From the front and rear, the Phaeton barely resembles a chair, more a rigid interlocking group of vertical and horizontal lines, where from the side it is highly flourished and fluid. 

The chair was nominated for ‘Furniture Design Of The Year’ with Perspex® also featuring it as an inspirational piece on their website.

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