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Hands Down the BEST Outdoor Furniture for Camping: The Foldable Lander

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The great outdoors is often synonymous with struggle. The idea of going camping or trekking isn’t just to admire the beauty of nature, but to also leave behind the comforts of your cushy home and lifestyle and brave the elements. Eat fruits directly off trees, hunt for fish, sit on a tree stump, live the way our ancestors lived. Human ingenuity, however, strives to make the experience better. Power stations help us carry electricity to the outdoors, tactical EDC helps us service in life-threatening situations, and chairs like the Foldable Lander make sitting much more comfortable in the outdoors. Designed to be compact and lightweight, the Foldable Lander measures a little over 13 inches in length when closed and weighs 2.8 lbs. Open it up, however, and it transforms into a comfortable chair with a backrest, capable of taking up to 100x its weight.

Designer: Yunonglive Studio

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Instantly deploys.

The Foldable Lander’s design bases itself on the principles of origami and the design of the Moon Lander’s four-legged landing mechanism. The concept features legs folded by a ratchet-like mechanism with gear synchronization that can be combined to create flexibility with solid support, which can be folded repeatedly without losing the shape. The chair consists of a lightweight but durable metal frame, onto which sits a fabric seat that stretches taut like a hammock. The Foldable Lander comes in two styles – a seat with a backrest, and an ottoman-style stool that also works as a footrest in conjunction with the seat. Both variants of the Foldable Lander are designed to be ultra-lightweight and portable, folding down to the size of a large umbrella so you can carry them anywhere, and opening up in just under 5 seconds so you can make yourself comfortable wherever you are, whether it’s a beach, your balcony, or a campsite.

Designed to be much more convenient than any of the other foldable chairs you’d be hauling in the back of your pickup truck, the Foldable Lander is compact enough to strap to your backpack and weighs less than a 6-pack of beer. When deployed, you get the benefit of a perfectly comfortable, adjustable ergonomic chair/stool that feels a lot better to sit on than that tree stump I mentioned earlier.

The chair’s design features a frame made from anodized aluminum, making it strong yet lightweight, with stainless steel hinges and fixtures for extra durability. The frame opens and closes like a camera tripod, albeit with four legs with extendable arms that hold the four corners of the fabric seat. The fabric seat itself is made from a durable 900D Oxford Fabric with PVC waterproof backing. The edges are machine-embroidered with Yunonglive studio’s artistic pattern, and a strap on the side that helps keep your chair or table/ottoman sealed much like the strap on a folding umbrella.

What really makes the Foldable Lander our pick for the best outdoor furniture is really a combination of factors and features. Good furniture must be steady and comfortable. Good OUTDOOR furniture needs to also be lightweight, easy to use/carry, and withstand the elements… The Foldable Lander pretty successfully ticks all those boxes. The waterproofed fabric on the seat resists bad weather as well as dropped food/liquids and other stains, while the aluminum frame is non-corrosive, making the Foldable Lander suitable for the rainy season or damp outdoor conditions. That being said, the chair and ottoman can be comfortably used indoors too. The taut fabric seat provides a hammock-like comfort that contours to your body, and silicone feet at the bottom of the four legs prevent skidding or leaving marks on your apartment/office/balcony floor. Your cat/dog may enjoy lounging on it too!

The Foldable Lander comes in two varieties – the chair and the ottoman, across two colors – olive green, and off-white. The entire chair’s made from materials that are either fully recyclable or fully biodegradable, including even the paper box it comes packaged in. Grab the Foldable Lander for a special discounted price of $69, with worldwide shipping as early as July 2023.

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This leather-covered chair folds flat like a folder for easy storage

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Most people dream of owning eye-catching furniture, but not everyone has room for fancy yet large tables or distinctive but voluminous seats. Space becomes even more of a problem if you find yourself hosting guests once in a while, but not often enough to warrant purchasing permanent chairs in your already cramped living quarters. Foldable tables and chairs have become solutions to this dynamic space problem, but most of these sacrifice aesthetics in exchange for flexibility. Of course, there are some exceptions, especially within the realm of speculative or concept design, where form and function are both treated with equal dignity. This foldable chair, for example, clearly has a utilitarian construction, but it still manages to throw in a few design elements that give it the same stylish characteristic as leather-covered furniture and stationery.

Designer: Jeongwoo SEO

Traditional foldable chair designs come in wooden or metallic forms, with hinges and pivots that allow parts of the choir, usually the seat, to fold up or down to create a more compact shape. Although it’s a practical and simple design, it’s definitely not the only way to fold a chair. Given certain factors, it might not even be the best solution.

The Folio Chair takes a different approach to the folding puzzle, requiring no hinges or screws to implement the mechanism. Instead, it seems to take inspiration from papercraft and art such as origami, where simply pushing or pulling a single part can change the object’s shape. In this case, pulling the top of the chair upward causes the folds of the seat and the back legs to straighten up and lie flat on the middle layer that serves as the supporting structure of the chair.

The end result is a very flat but long piece that is almost reminiscent of a folder, which is probably where its name comes from. In addition to being easy to carry around, whether by the handle or under your arm, it also makes the Folio Chair easy to store away. You even have a stack of them either lying down or standing up in a closet, depending on how much space you have.

The Folio Chair also has a distinct charm with its leather surfaces and stitch marking at the edges. This calls to mind not only the leather upholstery used on more luxurious furniture but also the leather bindings on some notebooks and organizers. To some extent, it’s a design that wouldn’t look out of place in an office, even though it’s clearly meant for more casual settings.

Despite its unique proposition, the Folio Chair might still raise some concerns regarding its practicality and safety. While it might be flatter than most folding chairs, it is also a lot taller when collapsed, taking up more vertical space instead. Depending on the materials used, it might also seem a little bit unstable, simply relying on physics and folding patterns to make sure the chair doesn’t collapse under a person’s weight.

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Folding chair concept uses nylon strap to lift and fold

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As someone who admittedly spends a lot of time sitting on various kinds of chairs, folding chairs aren’t my favorite kind. Most of what I’ve seen and used aren’t that sturdy or comfortable. Even storing them is often a hassle and sometimes can cause minor accidents. Of course they’re still pretty useful especially when you need something portable and easy to store but needless to say, there are a lot of improvements that you can still make to this kind of product.

Designer: ( acasso ) Inc.

The Tekron concept for a folding chair tried to use “an unconventional structure” when coming up with a product design. It comes from a desire to improve not just the chair itself but also the user experience particularly when it comes to folding and storing it. They improved on the style and the mechanism involved while still maintaining the minimalist and industrial look of the usual folding chairs. Metal is still the ideal material overall so they experimented on the other things.

They used nylon straps and military-grade metal buckle for the folding and storing contraption. The “belt” actually looks like the airplane seatbelts or even the fashion accessory ones but this time around, the purpose is for the folding chairs. You have to tighten the strap from behind in order to fully fold the chair and make it as flat as possible if you don’t need to use it. It will not unfold unless you release the buckle so there will be no accidental unfolding like with normal folding chairs.

The Tekron chair itself is made from aluminum and can be folded and unfolded numerous times as it is lightweight and durable. The body is industrial in color and style but you get a pop of color from the lifting straps. The product renders show red and green colored straps and it provides a nice little design accent in what is otherwise a metallic, industrial design.

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The ‘Pad’ transforms from a simple flat wooden slab to a complete folding chair!

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Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

The Pad Chair transforms from a benign wooden mat into a neat chair with a backrest! Made from multiple wooden strips joined together in a rather unique way, the Pad Chair possesses the ability to transform from a flat, 2D shape into a neat, comfortable 3D chair. I’m sure there’s a locking system in place that allows the chair to lock in either closed or open positions, but for now, the Pad Chair provides a radical alternative to those ugly metal foldable chairs (the kind you’d see in wrestling matches). What the Pad Chair offers as an alternative looks incredibly classy, in both its closed as well as open versions!

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

The chair’s ingenuity lies in its simple, minimalist compact design. It isn’t made to look utilitarian when closed (like most foldable chairs do), but rather, assumes the avatar of a flat, wooden plank or slab when closed (quite like the Ollie Chair from RockPaperRobot). In its closed form, the Pad Chair occupies 1/11th of the space as it would when opened, allowing you to easily store multiple chairs together in your compact apartment, saving up on space.

The Pad Chair is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2021.

Designer: Shaohan Yang

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

Pad Folding Chair Shaohan Yang

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This umbrella-shaped folding chair is the most brilliantly creative furniture design I’ve seen this year!

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An umbrella-shaped chair. The idea itself sounds absolutely outrageous until you realize how incredibly clever it is. Think about it… would you rather be carrying an umbrella with you wherever you go, or have those godawful wearable chair-legs strapped to your torso like Gabe from Silicon Valley? The answer is obviously the umbrella, given how ubiquitous it is. It’s compact, and more importantly, is socially acceptable. So when designer Yanagisawa Sera was looking for a way to reinvent the folding chair, hiding it inside an umbrella sounded like a perfect idea!

What’s brilliant about the Hide And Seek chair is its sheer absurdity… along with the fact that it actually works! Sera went straight from the drawing board to the metal workshop to test his idea out and from the looks of it, the umbrella-shaped chair works – at least on a prototype level! The frame of the umbrella was fabricated from stainless steel rods, and is designed to fold right into the umbrella shape when closed. A stretched fabric mounted on the frame helps distribute the weight when you sit, allowing the chair to actually take the weight of an adult human. It does look a tad fragile if I’m being candid, but that’s something that can easily be fixed by using materials like titanium or even carbon fiber. The best part about the entire product is that it folds right back into the shape of a standard umbrella, which means you can place it in backpacks, handbags, or even carry it to the grocery store or a concert… blending right into the crowd right before you open the Hide And Seek and take a seat on the world’s only umbrella-shaped chair! That should definitely grab a few eyeballs!

In fact, under certain circumstances, you could use the Hide And Seek as an umbrella too! Although considering its framework (which is designed to easily take somewhere around 160 lbs of weight) is much more robust than the kind found on most umbrellas, the Hide And Seek would be much heavier than your average umbrella, making it difficult to carry for longer periods of time. Nevertheless, the level of creativity and ingenuity the Hide And Seek demonstrates is truly marvelous… especially given the fact that the outrageously brilliant idea is even backed by a working prototype! Yanagisawa Sera, I hope you’ve filed your patents on this, because it may easily be the most brilliantly creative product design I’ve seen this year!

Designer: Yanagisawa Sera

This folding chair perfectly balances its Japanese materiality with Scandinavian aesthetics!

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Furniture for small spaces is essential and can make the difference between you loving or disliking your cozy zone. So why let an ordinary bulky piece of furniture take up the precious space when a compact chair that can fold up to store in some corner can fill its boots? There are a number of superb examples of folding chairs, but where the Departo folding chair makes room for its exclusivity is its portable form factor – you can set it up on the balcony, for a dinner party – fold, hold it by its leather strap and carry it to where life takes you later!

Arguably, many folding chairs are conceived with the concept of portability but their design anomalies leave them high and dry. Departo folding chair however offers a high-quality seating solution conjured up with unification of aesthetics of two cultures. The utilitarian chair is built with Scandinavian design inspiration and focus on Japanese materiality realized with the steel frame and ash wood legs. The rounded wooden backrest of the chair complements the comfy canvas seat while the leather handle allows for easy carrying.

Provided in light ash and dark ash colors, this hand-crafted foldable seating solution is a brainchild of Departo founders Glenn Pushelberg, George Yabu and Yuichiro Hori and is priced at $295 apiece. Departo folding chair is a piece of contemporary furniture whose minimalist design, warm simplicity and inherited advantages of easy to carry, is a solution well thought out for urban apartments, travel trailers, and tiny homes.

Designer: Departo