When F1 Engineering Becomes the Chair You Sit In - Yanko Design

A chair uses the precise geometry of an F1 rear wing, including its wide sweeping profile, curved grounded legs, and unmistakable aerodynamic structure. The design is not a decorative motorsport reference; it faithfully reorients and scales the original component into something that can be sat on. The chair is made from 100% carbon fibre with the raw woven weave visible, without softening or added elements. The design maintains the authority of the original object by committing fully to its engineering logic rather than making it more accessible. The concept applies the same obsessive precision used to shave fractions of a second to a home object, blending sculpture and engineering.

"Designer Keon-Jo took the actual geometry of an F1 rear wing, the profile, the curvature, the aerodynamic structure, and translated every element with full fidelity into a functional object. The result is 100% carbon fibre, unmodified and unapologetic, with every surface showing the raw woven weave exactly as it comes. Nothing softened, nothing added."

"A lesser approach would have tried to make it more accessible, more livable, more palatable for people who might not know or care what a rear wing actually does. Keon-Jo didn't do that, and the piece is stronger for it. The chair carries the authority of the original object because it commits to the original object, completely."

"F1 rear wings are products of obsessive precision. Aerodynamicists and engineers spend entire seasons calculating the exact angles and curves that will shave fractions of a second off a lap time. Every millimetre is deliberate. Every surface has a reason. Keon-Jo took that same philosophy and asked what happens when you apply it to the home."

"The answer is a chair that sits at the edge of sculpture and engineering in a way that very few objects manage. It doesn't look like it's trying to be art"

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