Michael Wolf's series "Bastard Chairs," created in 2002, depicts chairs compiled together by individuals in the People's Republic of China. Wolf discovered what he deems "vernacular chairs" and footstools, throughout his many trips to China and began documenting their plebeian aesthetic. As he describes on designboom, bastard chairs are "…not elegant, nor are they always comfortable. But neither are they mass-produced: they are individuals. In china, the objects used for sitting are as manifold as the occasions for sitting. each chair and stool has its own character, is a companion, a bastard, or a venerable elder. Their occupants sit close to the floor, introspective, watching the world go by, without the pressure of time…"
(Wolf previously posted here)
(via designboom)
(image credit : Michael Wolf)
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