SLAM: ingredients for success
SLAM chairs program has created a great interest during its international launch at ORGATEC Fair in Cologne.
The unusual interest created by this program is probably due to a series of ingredients which not always come together. Honesty in Design, Accuracy in Execution, High Demand in the Program Development and Technological Innovation.
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SLAM: Collaboration between SELLEX and Lievore Altherr Molina
After an intensive work during the last two years, SELLEX and Lievore Altherr Molina have presented the SLAM chairs program at ORGATEC Fair.
It is available, on a first stage, in five different frames (aluminium, aluminium with armrests, steel tube, steel tube with armrests and steel rod) and four different shells (3D wood(treated wood), wood, polypropylene and upholstered).
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Accessories to complete its use on Contract are available: Stacking glide, Linking piece, Writing tablet, Transport and stacking trolley.
SLAM: Technological Innovation
SLAM chairs program counts on innovating features.
One of the shell alternatives has been made on ‘oak treated wood’ so as to provide flexibility in bending, which is known as 3D wood. This technique allows the wood to be shaped in a unique way. Besides, maximum thickness has been given to the shell, as per 7mm thick. Being this not enough, edges have been rounded so the looking seems to be 5mm thick.
In the same way, aluminium frame’s design has been especially cared. As a consequence, the profile of the whole aluminium frame (called ‘railing’ by designer) has 12mm thickness.
All of it with the aim to achieve a unique lightness appearance in the whole program.
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Even the smallest details have been innovated.
Auxiliary elements like the linking piece and the writing tablet are so innovative that they are in the process of being patented as worldwide novelty.
SLAM: Keeping same aesthetic in all areas of the installation
Regardless the different shells and frames configurations, SLAM chairs program keeps always the same aesthetic.
We have searched for an aesthetic able to match the different areas of the equipment. We expect the SLAM program to become a referee in all kind of spaces: installation, office and home.
SLAM: Aesthetic concept of the Program
The two main aesthetic concepts of the program have been ‘the railing and lightness’.
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The idea of the ‘railing’ can be seen in the frame’s profile, which has been meant to be visible in all its versions. This profile continues to be present in the different shells and it is remarked in the model with armrests. The ‘railing’ (profile) is visible in all versions of the chair and from any angle.
Lightness has been achieved by trying that all joining parts of the different elements of the chair (shell-frame) and the joining parts between the chair and the floor will not touch, but ‘float’. That’s why, the two main elements of the chair, shell and frame, remain at sight, but its union is hidden. Consequently, the impression we get is that the shell is floating on between both sides of the frame. The use of receding glides in the aluminium frame makes that the chair does not lean on the floor, but floats.
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