The Zero Chair, Designed for Minimal Production Waste

Commissioned to design the interior of a restaurant on a tight budget, French industrial designer Franck Magné worked with a local metal fabricating shop to develop these Zero chairs. "I imagined tables and chairs that could be manufactured locally while meeting the budgetary constraint," Magné writes. "Based on these concerns, I worked on optimizing the design of the chairs to minimize material scrap. Nine Zero chairs can be laid out of a standard sheet of aluminum. The material...