Materials: Leather Rover car seat and Ikea Poang chair frame
Description: I was inspired by Ron Arad’s 1981 Rover chair, which utilised a leather Rover car seat with galvanised steel scaffolding poles for the legs and arm rests.
My Ikea Hack follows the same theme utilising a black leather Rover car seat and an Ikea Poang chair frame for the legs and arm rests.
I have taken the original Poang legs and arm rests and rotated them through 90 degrees as shown. The original Poang components are simply strengthened at the joint and complemented with a plywood horizontal board used to bolt the Rover car seat onto.
As shown, I have made two matching Rover/Poang Chairs and they are going to be used as drinking chairs in my snug!
~ Ian, Southampton
This is not attractive. :X
ReplyDeletei think it's totally cool. to each his own. Very creative and very rad retro looking. thanks!
ReplyDeleteI love it!
ReplyDeletenot really my style, but nice job!
ReplyDeleteDid you pull the seats from a car or did you buy them someplace? I would like to purchase the seats so i can do something similar.
ReplyDeleteYou can buy car seats from a wrecking yard or pick a parts type place
Deletenext thing you know, you're designing the Top Gear set furniture...
ReplyDeleteI like the chairs... would not put them in living room, but for some places, I guess they could fit in really well..
That´s actually a great start for a racesim videogamechair setup! All you need to do is to add a stand for the steering wheel and pedals...
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These are really cool.
ReplyDeleteSeriously funky! Love the creativity!
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice homage. Love Ron Arad!
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