The icon of the future

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Chaise. Stoel. Chair. Defining Design

Where are we today? It’s your turn to choose a chair that could represent and become an icon of our epoch. An icon first calls our attention and later maintains the fascination alive. There are many ingredients for doing this. We proposed this selection which is subjective and only wants to suggest some of the trends of the last decade.

One would be technology. The development of new materials and techniques of production is a non-stop run. Designers are in permanent search of increasing our well-being through objects which are respectful of the users’ needs and the environment.

Secondly, objects are materialized ideas that take form in tune with or in response to the cultural and social context, as well as the economic and political situation. In consequence, their familiar or unconventional character provoke diverse reactions in the users, both as individual and community.

Last but not least, the very first public’s impression lies in the objects’ appearance. The aesthetic appeal results from the interaction of addressing different senses through colors, textures and materials.

The winning chair will be revealed at the end of the exhibition on the website of the museum and the museum’s socialmedia : Facebook & Instagram

Inspired by a Paraguayan tribe, this solution finds comfort within lack of resources, reversing assumptions about well-being. Besides, its simplicity is an effective counterpart of the complex reality.

Playful and enjoyable, it perfectly fits with the actual leisure-oriented society. These characteristics are obtained thanks to a long, handmade, and thoughtful process of creation.

Transparent and immaterial… What could feel better than “sitting in the air”?

The latest 3D intelligence leads to a high-comfort level and suggests a pleasant workplace by reducing parts and materials. Indeed, here it is the first frameless suspension-back chair.

The never-ending pursue of fundamentality leads to a light, stackable, single-block, and recyclable chair. Such structural and ornamental optimization will always be desirable.

Embracing simultaneously environment and technology, recycled plastic - apparent in the undulated texture - makes past visible while the innovative production through 3D printing makes so with future.

Responding to the digitalization of human interactions, Duo seat encourages dialogue between the sitters as when one sits, the other reclines. It represents an optimistic interplay between materiality and people.

Its fabrication file readable by a CNC router is downloadable for everyone, enabling open access to an engineer piece that guarantees support and fits in every environment.

This chair brings together craftsmanship, industrialization, and the coming digital era, serving as a bridge toward a planet ruled by algorithms.

The primitive colors and the innovative fiberglass makes this chair timeless; just as the allusion to motherhood through rounded lines is.

The two missing legs are those of the sitter, creating an energetic bond between him/her and the chair. The attack to the idea of comfort and the dominant sedentary lifestyle promotes an active future.

Thanks to the simple geometric figures, it fits every sort of body. This neutrality, together with its lightness and stackability, satisfies the needs of a globalized and pragmatic society.

Besides improving flexibility, balance, coordination, and posture, this ball confers a casual and elegant touch that makes it suitable for every environment.

Experimentation with natural and artificial fibres generates this revolutionary material, strong and biodegradable. Is interaction between local and the mass-produced elements the door towards a sustainable future?

The combination of three 3D printers creates this safe-oriented wheelchair. This centrality of the human is further developed by facilitating the personalization of the seat and foot bay.

This wearable exoskeleton is conceived for increasing companies’ productivity through guaranteeing the well-being of their employees. Undoubtedly, a futuristic inversion!

Fusing machine and nature, this is the first 3D-printed-chair including living fungus. The strength and durability of this new material facilitates bringing any product to live!

Unprecedented disruption of gendered body language in an every-day item, whose provocative tone is emphasized by the use of make-up for coloring it. An utter embodiment of the feminist call.

Taking the use of technology a step further, this chair announces the beginning of a new era, the one of artificial intelligence. In it, generative design will draw every tool, furniture, ornament... Everything

It takes a deep insight into plastics to discover new functions and eco-friendly ways of applying it. This consideration ennobles plastic as the material of the next generation.

Dethroning the Superleggera for 40 grams, Ultraleggera weighs only 1660 g thanks to the cutting-edge FiDU technology. Which other records will be beaten by this promising laser innovation?

Capsule creates an isolated site for facilitating concentration and unleashing imagination. Stylish, intimate, comfortable... And, more significantly nowadays, safe.

The artificial method of scanning first natural elements and later printing them in as furniture contrasts with the pure result, which gives the impression of constituting an unconquered territory.

An entirely recycled and recyclable chair is expected to be expensive. However, Bell chair overcomes the monobloc’s practical and economic problems, democratizing the respect for the environment.

Through the suppression of details and the modern technology of gas injection moulding, Evo-C reaches the peak of comfort, grace, and stability in plastic design.