With previous projects including the Cineroleum and the community-led Folly for a Flyover under their belt, young London-based architecture collective Assemble has turned their hand to furniture with a series of 200 chairs for Clerkenwell Design Week (May 21-23). Designed and built in their east London workshop at Sugarhouse Studios, the triangular chairs are dotted around Clerkenwell, from the historic Farmiloe Building to St James’ Church Garden behind Clerkenwell Green.
The chairs were manufactured as a prototype low-cost DIY chair complete with instruction manuals for their fabrication, and Assemble has arranged, stacked and slotted them to create places to sit, eat and relax during the three-day festival. They can also be reconfigured to create larger seating arrangements, tables, amphitheatres, climbing structures and patterns. As Assemble said: “The sheer multitude of chairs will set up absurd and otherworldly situations that prompt speculation as to their purpose and turn their users into part of the performance.”
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