Desktop Chair: Elegant Bent Wood Laptop And Tablet Stand
Handmade with fine natural basswood, Desktop Chair simply holds your Apple laptop when used in desktop substitute mode with an external display, keyboard and a mouse (or trackpad), with a cushion pad and anti-slip buttons.
One size Desktop Chair fits all, able to accommodate virtually all Apple laptops and tablets regardless of shape, with or without a cover, now and the future, including all iPads, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs plus the PowerBook G4s and indeed any laptop that isn’t thicker than 1.2″ (30mm).
Desktop Chair is made by Atelier MOKU, is whose originas are as a Japan-based artesan shop run by Masayuki and Hideyuki (son & father), who combine expertise in modern industrial design with traditional woodcrafting.
The idea of Desktop Chair, Atelier MOKU’s first project, came from the principals’ own genuine need for something which they felt comfortable putting their laptop on while working on a large screen.
After making two for themselves, they say people kept asking them to make more – so many that they couldn’t keep up with the requests. Making custom-made woodcraft was something of their speciality, but making products in a batch and delivering to many others was a whole new story.
However, with a help of a partner furniture factory, Masayuki and Hideyuki managed to develop a technique for producing Desktop Chairs in a fairly large quantity while maintaining the quality, but still needed funding for production and for setting up a distribution system internationally.
In July 2011, they decided to put the Desktop Chair’s fate into the hands of people and started a project at CAMPFIRE, a leading social funding platform in Japan. With no guarantee for success, 97 people backed the project and pledged money totaling JPY 477,500, which well exceeded Masayuki and Hideyuki’s funding goal and made Desktop Chair a reality – a socially funded product.
Desktop Chair sells for $38.00.
For more information, visit:
http://www.moku-woodware.com/