The Chia Chair Is Designed For Nature and Humans

This strange and innovative project by students at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden combines furniture design with indoor planting.

Dubbed the Chia Chair, the design features a clean wooden frame with a puffy knitted upholstery that is in tube form, and weaves its way in and around the chair’s frame.

That in of itself is not the unique factor. Embedded into the upholstery are thousands of chia seeds, which have started sprouting out from the chair in various organic patterns.

It’s a startling yet charming discovery, to find plants growing out of the furniture directly.  The concept is part of an exhibition called Making Transparency, an exploration into posthumanist design.

The designers’ ideas are exploring built objects that function for plants first, and humans afterwards. Clearly the chair was meant as a statement piece, and not a practical item, but nevertheless we love the exploration.

“The plant is the primary user of Chia-Chair and humans are only temporary visitors,” 

“The seating furniture becomes its own entity that not only assumes but demands respect from the user.”

-Student designers Alice Hultqvist, Emelie Sjöberg and Linnea Nilsson.

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