The Brief
What does your perfect chair look like?
Bruno Munari, Design as Art, Translated by Patrick Creagh, Penguin Books; Header illustrations: Saul Steinberg. The Saul Steinberg Foundation
This is my The Most Comfortable Chair in The World .....
I brought this question to a lot of people in my life: “What does your perfect chair look like?”
“It doesn’t hurt my butt.”
“It fits the aesthetics of my room.”
“It’s wobbly but I made it myself.”
The answers are all different. So I wonder:
Does it ever exist, a perfect chair?
Who is riding the definition of its perfection?
Is it a person, or an organization, or a mysterious need?
If it doesn’t exist, what’s the point of finding it? If it does, do we really need it?
What if the chair we find perfect now is no longer perfect in three months?
Must it be the ultimate definition of comfort, or can multiple comforts coexist and interact? So many questions, yet no concrete answers. But do we need answers after all?
Still, we believe that “a perfect chair” shows us more than just a perfect chair. It is about your definition of perfection, your relationship with the materials world, your experience with the image worlds,...
In short, your “perfect chair” reveals about you as much as you do about it.
Soooooooooooo...
Do you want to tell your stories in the form of chairs?
Or maybe, let’s define the new comfort(s)!?