Seongyong Lee

Seongyong Lee Has been developing Plytube at the RCA. There are all sorts of practical installations, as he explains below, but i am just very into the negative space aesthetic which it gives, almost like a functioning mould from which you could cast another object.

		"Plytube is a new way of tubing wood using the similar principal of making paper tube but with some more process to harden the wooden tube which I made. Plytube is accurate wooden tube, very light but strong, long lasting as for the value of plywood and acceptable with all kinds of tooling and finishing for wood. The diameter, thickness, colour, type of wood and even the section of the shape will be able to be customized. Ultimately, it could also be used for architectural material as well as for life goods. I made some furniture series which should be light. You will see how light but strong the furniture which are made with minimal material could be. For instance, the weight of the stool is 820g even though it is a proper sized stool and with rigid structure. Each furniture shows the good things of plytube such as the structural rigidity, new aesthetic of joints and finish for the stool, extremely strong things for the bench and the hollowness of the tube which is used for a mobile phone charger cable pathway for the small tables. "