Chaise Ressort Mince/Thin Spring Chair 1967
When François Dallegret exhibited his Chaise Ressort at the Montreal Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts in 1969, he hung it from a ceiling so that it would appear weightless, suspended like an astronaut in a lunar module.  “Ressort” means “spring” – as a single sheet of folded aluminum, the Chaise relaxes and adjusts to the user’s weight and posture, always recovering its shape after compression.  While appearing only as a set of three prototypes, the Chaise caused a sensation – in his book Arthropods (1972), the seminal compilation of avant-garde design from the sixties, Jim Burns described perfectly Dallegret’s chair as a “gargantuan paperclip gone berserk”
One of three protoypes.