Fifteen stools in the space of two: Patrick Jouin

The piece that made Patrick Jouin a name among engineers has no axles, no screws, no springs and no hinges. One Shot opens by gravity alone: a vertical bundle of polyamide rods unfolds into a seat because joints, legs and shell were sintered in a single operation. Manufacturers remember the arithmetic that follows — produced closed, fifteen stools can be built at once inside a machine volume where two open ones would barely fit. Trained at ENSCI in Paris and leading his own studio since 1998, Jouin has kept that instinct for deleting components in everything he draws, whether it comes off a printer bed or a factory line in Bergamo.

In India the results arrive through La Mercanti: the Ester seating family and the Social modular sofas, both for Pedrali, chosen when a hotel or a headquarters wants furniture that reads as one clean idea across every floor.