Macramé meets high-tech: The lightweight Knotted Chair was born by a surprising marriage of handcraft and industrial technology. The rope made of an aramide braid and carbon centre is knotted into the shape of a chair. The slack texture is then impregnated with epoxy and hung in a frame to harden.

The chair invites to touch and try. Despite all his modern technology he has a lovely doltishness, which brings out its individual and personal character. Winning the Rotterdam design prize in 1997, the Knotted Chair appeals to the imagination because it realizes the designer’s age-old dream: making something soft and flat which becomes rigid and three-dimensional by means of a couple of technical inventions. Moreover he rescues the traditionally pure, practical and constructive macramé technique from stuffy image that it has had since the Sixties by linking it up with the latest technology.