His latest design, the Houdini chair and armchair, are great examples of how powerful the hands-on approach to design is for achieving innovative and out of the box results.
Inspired in a technique used in aeroplane model making, Diez has used a series of 4 mm plywood sheets and bent them around the milled solid wood base, this different shaped wood rings form the shell-like back of the chairs and the seat.
This innovative technique allows not only to have an extremely lightweight object with a unique shape but also to avoid the use of nails or screws; the curved pieces of plywood are glued to the wood base.
