The chair resin Plump, created by the American designer Ian Alistair Cochran, perfectly exemplifies the fascination for immateriality, transparency and sophistication.
The shapes play with the effect that the resin has when light it refracts through the solid parts, which makes it simply fascinating. The chair is held together through notches at each joint, as Alistair Cochran decided not to use glue or any type of fastener.
This piece is inspired by another piece of furniture made in 1976 by the Japanese product designer Shiro Kuramata, but its creator decided to update its appearance.
Something wonderful of this chair is that it is fully assembled from resin panels, something totally unusual when it comes to creating this type of piece.
Thanks to the fact that Ian Alistair Cochran chose simple geometric shapes to give life to this piece of furniture, it is possible to play, without any problem, with different colors in various shades.
Using color applied through an innovative pigmentation process, Alistair Cochran has created beautifully simple, high-quality designer pieces.
It is worth emphasizing that resin is a demanding material, difficult to mold and difficult to cure. All the bubbles of air get trapped inside, seemingly impossible to avoid and spoil the final product, but this designer makes the impossible possible.
“It's not like pouring water into a cup, where it's going to be clear and then I'll take it out of the cup and it's going to be clear,” Cochran tells S Magazine. “I am working from behind to avoid all the headaches that this material has. Then I try to design from there.”
Ian Alistair Cochran may have mastered the material, but he says he's not done working with it as he's exploring new ways of working with it, mixing it with other materials to create new textures, new shapes and new perceptions.