Perhaps I am getting a bit ahead of myself but I am looking at ways to integrate wool felt, boucle, or some other soft material to the seating surface of the pattern chair. I envision the chair to exist in indoor and outdoor settings. It would be great if I could integrate the material by layering it on top of the metal faces and then fastening them with the same flanges that fasten the metal panels together. Something like this:

The only change to the existing design would be the size of the fasteners that hold the flanges together. I could laser cut the material and test this out rather quickly. An outdoor version might use some weather resistant fabric/padding or omit the fabric altogether.

Here is another rendering of how they might look:

Here is the first test of the metal panels:

I am also thinking about completely upholstering over all pieces (except for the flanges).