The Chair Sitting Society questions the cultural and symbolic significance of sitting in the West. An object of fascination and obsession in design, the chair isolates the body and raise it off the ground. It manifests an exclusive space for each person, recalling the chair’s origins as an element of social distinction, power and hierarchy.

In many non-Western cultures, the chair was not introduced until colonisation - they became symbols of settlers pretending to rise above Nature and the Natives.

The Chair Sitting Society is a seat that plays on the codes of a chair. It features a wooden structure that echoes the formal language of the chair, and frames a Vacoa mat that serves as the seat. Traditionally used on Reunion Island as a collective ground surface, the mat (or sézi) is here tied up and forced to become an individual seat.

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_{Created in collaboration with Mileno Guillorel-Obregón
Weaver: Nadine Dutreuil
Photos by Hygo Revollet}

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