A new design concept being described as the world's smallest chair was made with the use of platinum, it has been confirmed.

Lucas Maassen created the Nano Chair 2.0 XXS, which measures just three microns in size and is impossible to see with the bare eye, even with a standard microscope.

The chair was put together by 'printing' liquid platinum on a silicum chip with the aid of a focused electron beam.

Mr Maassen said on his official website: "This chair is only visible with an SEM microscope, which gets its information by shooting ions at an object that reflects the image."

The new chair is one of many designs released in recent years by Mr Maassen, who relies on non-traditional fabrication and wants his products to be thought-provoking rather than functional.

As a psfk.com article noted: "He has experimented with processes using brain wave recorders to focused electron beams.

"He said that part of what is interesting about using these new processes is that objects emerge without the conscious act of drawing them out first on paper or on the computer."

Anyone interested in seeing the Nano Chair 2.0 XXS can head to his new exhibition, 'Conceivably, The Object Is What It Seems', which is running at New York's CITE Showroom until 10th October.

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