This prototype chair begins with a resistance.
A resistance to the distance between design and everyday life. To things becoming polished, controlled, and slightly detached. As if beauty is mainly something to consume. As if it belongs to a few, something exclusive.
I like the idea that a “design” chair could exist at the price of an IKEA chair. That design can be more open and within reach. I believe beauty has a meaningful, inspiring effect. After safety, food, and shelter, it feels close to essential, if it is kept essential.
The starting point is a single sheet of plywood. At the same time it is a limitation. The chair is not fully designed beforehand. It develops through cutting and assembling. Step by step, trying to keep only what seems necessary. Each step is a reduction. At a certain point the relation to the body becomes less clear. It almost fades. For me that is where it starts to become interesting. Less obvious, more open.
What remains is something basic, feels essential, an archetype.