Fragile chair minds of recession

After visiting the Dutch Design Week in October 2011, designer Frank Tjepkema and Tjep. was struck by how little the design world seems to react to the immanent economic crisis threatening Europe and the world. So he came up with a little something to make up for his esteemed colleagues. Following up on the XXL chair from 2005 he now presents the Recession Chair.
Receding is the act of withdrawing and diminishing. Tjep. were interested in exploring the visual impact of receding in relation to a design object. They took an Ikea mass produced chair and started sanding it to the finest possible version. The result is a process where the chair goes from normal, to diminished, to skeleton like. The resulting object is barely functional as it most likely won’t withstand the weight of the person it's trying to support, much like a society plagued by recession.
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