Chair made from 65,000 RUBBER BANDS will put a spring in your seat!
- Industrial Design student Preston Moeller spent 336 hours making the chair
- His creation earned him a $3,000 prize at Appalachian State University
An student's rubber band ball started making a ball of rubber bands in class - and 65,000 bands later, it had stretched into the world's bounciest office chair.
Industrial Design student Preston Moeller, 26, spent 336 hours designing and building the 3ft tall chair.
It weighs 35lb and can support the weight of a grown adult.
The rubber band chair, modelled by Maegen Eichinger, right, took 336 hours of design and building work
It took 65,000 rubber bands and 336 hours of work to make the colourful chair
His colourful creation earned him the $3,000 first prize in the Appalachian State University’s 6th Annual Chair Design Competition
Preston Moeller, 26, bagged the top prize at his university's design awards
Mr Moeller, from Cleveland, North Carolina, constructed the chair by wrapped rubber bands around a wire frame, hidden from view.
On his personal website, he reported that the chair was proving to be incredibly hardy.
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He wrote: 'It has been moved around to multiple shows and I have been using it for the last couple months as my computer chair and it still looks as good as new.
'On the other hand, I have other smaller pieces that have started to dry up after around four years so I'm not sure how long the chair has to live.
'It looks as if the frame under the rubber bands is helping to keep them fresh but I don’t expect it to last forever.'
The chair was even shown off during New York Design Week as part of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s booth.
Preston Moeller, 26, has put the rubber band ball to a more unconventional use - as an office chair, modelled by former Appalachian State classmate Maegen Eichinger
The chair, with a wire frame hidden beneath the rubber bands, stands three feet tall and weighs 35lbs
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