Shell

Maxwell Sims

Maxwell Sims is a product designer from Canada. He aims to find an intersection where expression and practicality meet.

Maxwell Sims is a Toronto-based designer exploring how materials, form, and meaning shape the built environment. Exhibited internationally, including in New York and Paris, his projects reflect an ongoing interest in how macro and micro decisions coalesce as phsyical products. His projects have been featured in publications such as Dezeen and Design Milk.

He studied Industrial Design at OCAD University in Toronto, and The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and his work spans areas such as research and product development.

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Materials: Aluminum + Hardware
Dimensions: 30cm x 40cm x 10cm

Shell is an elaboration on the shell-shaped leg usually found on cheap plastic stools. The idea was to try and soften sheet metal through large radius bends. In also wanting it to be an economic object it was important it could be sold disassembled. The matte powder coat adds to the softness.

Shell is composed of three parts, two legs and a seat, which assemble easily with four bolts. The aim was to simplify the visual complexity of where parts meet in order to not disrupt the graphic continuity of the form.

The front and back of the seat are subtly rounded over which softens the edge when sat on, this also creates a lip which makes lifting the stool intuitive and easily done with one hand.