CROSS CULTURAL CHAIRS

The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting/ but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Mod ern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity?In observing and an alysing social and cultural differences through chairs from eight cultures in the most populated countries, Sicilian designer Matteo Guarnaccia went on a field research to portray each country, in collaboration with selected local design studios, to situate each c ultural ...[Read more]