Saturday, May 1, 2010

Monique Engelund

Monique Engelund
Architect
Banegaardsgade 1, 5.sal
8000
Aarhus
Denmark
0045 29638907
Monique@moniques.dk
www.moniques.dk



ZIP
Is it a chair? Maybe not...
Viscoelastic foam, YKK reversible Zippers, Kvadrat Max fabric
18.01.2010

ZIP. is an adaptable object who generates new sitting-experiences. ZIP. Can be your hiding place, your dating seat, your workstation or you can totally unzip the ZIP. and create a pillow pile lounge area.
Zip is not only serving a functional purpose, it also suggesting an alternative to the existing typologies, which gives permission to informal positions and changes “sitting” from being a passive activity to an active relationship between human and furniture.


LEAN on me
chair
steel
LEAN on me...The LEAN chairs, requires communication and mutual trust to sit on them. Exactly like the Danish democratic society. In that way it is an intentional comment on the world we live in, but more importantly an example of how design can encourage feelings and social relations between people...

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