An Industrial Designer Hid the Chair’s Entire Folding Mechanism Inside the Backrest
Gudmundur Ludvik had a question he couldn’t let go of. Why should a folding chair be a compromise? The answer, for decades, had been accepted without much pushback: folding chairs sacrifice comfort for storage, aesthetics for portability. The category had been quietly settled. Ludvik disagreed. The Backflip, produced by HAY, is his rebuttal. An Icelandic…