project:

Troll Chair

Year

2022

The Troll Chair does not belong in a room that is finished. It belongs in a room that is lived in.

The Troll chair was primarily conceived for generous comfort.

Deconstructivism marries amorphic softness as the wooden structure acts as the skeleton for loosely stacked pillows. Its malleable anatomy naturally yields to each person's posture. Troll Seating collection is a veritable flock of creature comforts. The Troll footrest doubles up as an easy stool. Weighing only 4kg, it's easy to move around in a herd.

Most furniture asks something of you. Sit like this. Hold yourself like that. The Troll Chair asks nothing.

There is a particular kind of comfort that furniture rarely attempts. Not the ergonomic kind — the studied, measured, clinically validated kind that produces objects that look like they belong in a waiting room. The other kind. The kind you feel when you sink into something and stop thinking about your posture. The Troll Chair was conceived entirely in pursuit of that second kind. The structure underneath is wood — a skeleton, in the truest sense. Rigid where it needs to be, present but invisible. Around it, pillows are stacked loosely, almost carelessly, in a way that the word "upholstery" doesn't quite cover. They are not fixed in any permanent arrangement. They yield. The chair's malleable anatomy responds to whoever sits in it — their weight, their posture, the particular way they hold themselves at the end of a long day. You don't adapt to the Troll Chair. It adapts to you. This is where deconstructivism, usually a cold and intellectual idea, becomes something warm. The exposed structure, the soft volumes stacked against it, the deliberate refusal to resolve the tension between hard and soft into something tidy — all of it in the service of comfort rather than argument. The collection extends. The Troll Bench follows the same logic at a different scale. The Troll Footrest — at 4kg, easy to move, easy to rearrange — was designed to travel with you around a room. Together they form what the designer called a flock. The word is exactly right. There is something alive about them, something that suggests they might rearrange themselves when you're not looking.

Troll Chair

Troll Chair

2022

Walnut Wood, Cotton, Bambagia