Adam Simha - 5-Minute Chairs
This must be the hardest chair to sit on , ever. Constructed from either mild steel and acetal or stainless steel and polycarbonate, this is one hard chair to stomach. Unless your a serious design aficionado, your bums just won’t take the potential soreness that raw steel will offer.
About the 5-Minute Dining chair, Adam Simha, the devious mastermind behind the conception has this to say: “ The design of a chair should address the reality of the experience of sitting: inherently one of changing needs and desires, a free and unselfconscious mix of fact, function, wit and whimsy” he muses.
Well, for those willing to ignore the hard surface, there is plenty of potential for the design. It’s so spartan and unadorned that it has already reached the Buddhist state of Nirvana in it’s quest for nothingness.
Nowadays with the varied designs of modern bistro tables and chairs, anything goes seems to be the byword of the year. Weird and wonderful appears to be the central theme of this century. I believe Adam Simha’s creation will fit right in just on it’s eccentricity alone. It defies all expectations of what a chair should be going right back to the basics, the frame.
Heck, the 5-Minute chair might even be passed as an outdoor bistro chair cum art installation. Ever passed a stack of random objects heaped randomly around only thinking, ‘what a mess’ till you get to the end with the information board. Well, the 5-Minute chair will be just perfect for you for your creativity. Puritans will love it.
For the design itself, I say throw it together with some wine bar furniture and you’ve got yourself a ripe discussion piece. Adorn your house with this and expect plenty of feedback on how the design is great but not so good to sit on. Expect word to pass round about your set up and it just might, just might… become the ‘in’ place on the list.
