The striking chair Konstantin Grcic has designed from bamboo continues the theme of craftwork traditions. The piece of furniture, which he recently presented at "Maison & Objet" in Paris, consists of a total of 43 laminated bamboo strips, which give the chair its name, "43". The structure faintly calls to mind old wooden sledges. The chair was created in the context of the so-called "Yii" project, a collaboration between the "NTCRI" (National Taiwan Crafts Research Institute) and the "TDC" (Taiwan Design Center), which aims to integrate traditional processing techniques into contemporary design. Moreover, the green claim of Grcic's generous chair is not only limited to the use of a sustainable material, but also manifests itself in the fact that it is handmade locally in an environmentally-conscious way. by Nora Sobich