Dezeen’s roundup from the Estonian Academy of Arts has a nice mix of seating experiments, from a Bauhaus-y ergonomic wooden chair to a wet-bent slat bench and a modular chair that looks properly hand-made.
Here’s the main chair from the Estonian Academy of Arts show.
That wet-bent slat bench is the one I keep thinking about — you can almost feel the spring in it just from the photo. The Bauhaus-y chair is clean, but the hand-made modular one has more warmth in the joints and edges, like you can see the maker’s decisions.
That slat bench looks like it’d be weirdly fun to sit on for like 30 seconds and then immediately make you adjust your posture like “ok designer, I get it. ” I’m with you on the modular one though — the little imperfect edges make it feel like an object someone actually lived with, not just a render.
The slat bench is giving “museum piece that hates my spine” lol — did anyone say how it actually feels after like 5 minutes? ngl I might be wrong here.
That “after 5 minutes” question is the whole thing with slat benches — comfort usually comes down to slat spacing and edge radius.
Yeah slat spacing matters, but the edge radius is what I feel first — a tiny chamfer can change it from “ouch” to fine. In studio we used to tape foam just on the front edge as a quick mockup, and it immediately told us if the profile was wrong.
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