A Picture Paints a Thousand Words. Especially When It’s Made up of Thousands of Words

The 'plot' system provided the inspiration for the design. Different combinations of colour, geometry and height form personalised seating landscapes, thus freeing up the seating experience entirely. It becomes spontaneous, unrestrained and almost limitless, just like the thoughts and ideas that arise during the contemplative act of sitting.

White, plastic letters set in a black, grooved background create fascinating associative figures and scenarios, opening up whole intellectual worlds. Some of the motifs refer to the company’s base in the Black Forest, others relate to the theme of sitting. Once you get closer, the images dissolve into lines of text in German, English and Italian – recalling the writing of poetry itself. On perusing the lines of text, you will come across product descriptions of the two seating objects, as well as sequences of dialogue, song lyrics, quotations and meditations that all have something to do with the theme of sitting. One product name emerges ironically from a scarf worn by a stag, another tumbles from the hand of God. The stream of words spills over onto the floor, where it delineates the objects on display. A brightly illuminated, cloudy sky of contoured textile fins is suspended above the whole scene, conjuring up fantastic worlds of the mind, and transforming the experience of testing a new product at an exhibition into a contemplative moment of relaxation.