This Chair Took Adam Savage Two Years To Make! (Trypophobia Warning)

Adam Savage decided to see how much lighter he could make a classic Emeco Navy Chair—already famed for its welded-aluminum strength—by drilling thousands of holes into its frame. What started as a simple DIY hack morphed into a two-year odyssey of precision layout, custom tooling, and more calculations than he ever bargained for.

Along the way, Adam’s careful planning, multiple prototypes, and a bit of 99% Invisible inspiration turned this wartime design into a trypophobia-inducing masterpiece that’s still as sturdy as ever—just a whole lot more perforated.

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