Jeremy Cosmo Davies

Elliptic Corten Steel and Stone Seat

The design idea came to me on passing a set of apartments near Zurich, Switzerland whilst planning an exhibition at Bedales in Hampshire. The minimalist Bauerhaus facade inspired me to think of the form as a possible design for a seat. The steel plate is a specialist material called Corten, which has been used successfully in the fabrication of The Angel of the North and as cladding on a number of contemporary buildings. In similar fashion I have allowed the steel to rust naturally to reveal a varied range of brown and orange streaking across the face of the material. The seat is made of Doddington sandstone of medium hard quality, quarried in the shadow of the Cheviot Hills in north Northumberland, near to where I live. It has a mottled pink/purple hue that works well with the rusting tones of the Corten steel plate.

The design idea came to me on passing a set of apartments near Zurich, Switzerland. The minimalist Bauerhaus facade inspired me to think of the form as a possible design for a seat. The steel plate is a specialist material called Corten, which has been used successfully in the fabrication of The Angel of the North and as cladding on a number of contemporary buildings. In similar fashion I have allowed the steel to rust naturally to reveal a varied range of brown and orange streaking across the face of the material. The seat is made of Doddington sandstone of medium hard quality, quarried in the shadow of the Cheviot Hills in north Northumberland, near to where I live. It has a mottled pink/purple hue that works well with the rusting tones of the Corten steel plate.

Specification

Thickness of steel plate: 20mm
Length: 3000mm
Radius of curve: 2960mm
Length of stone seat at front edge: 1200mm
Width of stone seat at centre point: 440mm
Thickness of Doddington stone seat: 100mm
Width from front edge of stone seat to rear external face of steel plate: 460mm
Height from ground level to top of steel plate: 915mm
Depth of foundation structure: 350mm
Length of foundation plate: 1200mm
Width of foundation plate: 480mm
Weight of steel: 1000kg
Weight of stone seat: 111kg

Seat requires 100mm thick concrete foundation 325mm below ground level on which the base anchor plate rests. The seat is supplied with a structural engineers report.

For more info contact enquiries@jeremycosmodavies.co.uk