A chair: a designed object for sitting. Its essential qualities, regardless of style or material:
- Function
- Support a seated body.
- Structure
- A surface to sit on.
- Intention
- Provide respite.
Craftspeople have been trying to realize the idealized, perfect chair out of bent wood, plastic, metal tubing, textiles, and stones for centuries. Chris and Kristian continue this legacy with whatever is lying around.
The rules
Chris Attenborough and Kristian Bjørnard make a chair a week — found materials, whatever's leftover in the shop. Three guidelines, no exceptions: it has to be functional, it has to be safe, and it has to be finished in one work session.
Where to find them
The chairs live at Union Brewing Taproom in Baltimore. Come see them in person. If you can't, buy this patch — a semiotic signal for chairness you can wear wherever you are, that idealized form that appears in your head the instant someone says the word "chair."
In the shop
This project is still going — a log of individual builds will grow here week by week. First entry: the mark itself.
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Chair-ness mark — the idealized diamond form the project keeps returning to Ongoing
Week-by-week builds go here as they're finished. This first entry is the project's mark rather than a chair — check back, or subscribe to the newsletter for updates as new ones get added.