Anthony Dunne Fiona Raby and Michael Anastassiades ‘Hide Away Furniture, Type 01’ 2005 Laminated English oak, felt. Chair: 90.2 cm (35 1/2 in) high; flooring: 3.8 × 295 × 202 cm (1 1/2 × 116 1/8 × 79 1/2 in) From an edition of three. From the ‘Designs for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times’ series.
Literature Paola Antonelli Safe: Design Takes on Risk, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005, p. 72 for a similar example; Icon Magazine, April 2005, no. 22, p. 77, fig. 5; Gareth Williams Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2009, p. 135 Catalogue Essay This series is made for people who are afraid of being abducted. The ‘Hideaway Chair’ aims to blend in with the floor so it is undetectable and opens in such a way as to not disturb items which have been set upon it. Once inside the chair, the user takes a specified body position designed to make the user feel comfortable, proud, and above all, in control. The interior is lined with felt so sounds from the inside are muffled. Read More
Anthony Dunne Fiona Raby and Michael Anastassiades ‘Hide Away Furniture, Type 01’ 2005 Laminated English oak, felt. Chair: 90.2 cm (35 1/2 in) high; flooring: 3.8 × 295 × 202 cm (1 1/2 × 116 1/8 × 79 1/2 in) From an edition of three. From the ‘Designs for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times’ series.
Literature Paola Antonelli Safe: Design Takes on Risk, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005, p. 72 for a similar example; Icon Magazine, April 2005, no. 22, p. 77, fig. 5; Gareth Williams Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2009, p. 135 Catalogue Essay This series is made for people who are afraid of being abducted. The ‘Hideaway Chair’ aims to blend in with the floor so it is undetectable and opens in such a way as to not disturb items which have been set upon it. Once inside the chair, the user takes a specified body position designed to make the user feel comfortable, proud, and above all, in control. The interior is lined with felt so sounds from the inside are muffled. Read More
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