#HTE

Clever Mechanism Lets This Chair Switch from Desk to Lounge Configuration

Here’s another great design from Sander Lorier, the fellow behind the Natural Balance pot. Lorier has created this Hybrid Chair, which initially seems like an ordinary desk-height chair:

Looking closer, you may wonder why the legs are so elaborate:

That’s because the chair can do this:

Even cooler is the mechanism by which it works, which steals a trick from the seatbelt:

Here’s what it looks like in action.

At first I figured the chair would want to tip forward when he sits in it in the lower position, but I’ve watched this over and over and you can see Lorier’s carefully calculated where the weight goes. 

This is no concept, by the way; Lorier’s producing and selling the chairs for €1,360 a pop.