If you have a home office set up like I do then I’m pretty sure you know that one of the furniture pieces that are hard to do without are the ever-useful stacking chairs. These nifty seating devices often show their worth when you get guests or visitors that may be too many to accommodate on the living room sofas or at the dining area. If you have a conference table in your home office then having a bunch of stack chairs is definitely a must.
We all know how that these are indispensable furniture in a corporate setting and most companies will probably have more than a handful of these especially if they maintain conference rooms designed to hold more than a handful people. The great thing about them is that they can provide seating for many but are easily stowed out of the way (and out of sight even) when they are not needed. They help keep the workplace clutter-free and maximally functional at the same time. Need to do a quick huddle with fellow office staffers? Get the stacking chairs and lay them out around a staff desk or a boardroom table and you’re set! After using them, stack them up again and store them in a corner.
Okay, so I was doing a bit of research online because I need to acquire a 4- to 6-piece stacking chair set and was looking at modern metal or wood designs (the ubiquitous plastic and resin varieties are practical and cheap but are downright ugly) when I stumbled into a couple of photos with these stackable chairs as artistic subjects.
One picture is of a sculpture made by James Nizam called Entanglement of Chairs. I liked the piece because it sorts of contradicts what these furniture is about. Instead of being stacked neatly into a corner of a room, they were “stacked” (or entangled) in such a way that they look so disorganized which is basically the irony of it all.
The second picture is a work by artist Doris Salcedo. She basically filled a gap between two buildings with about 1600 mostly wooden chairs stacked over each other. Reactions to the work was rather mixed with some apparently complaining about the supposed waste of valuable space. I think it’s brilliant work and if you’re an artist, you know you did good if you make people think about your work. (Source: http://www.universes-in-universe.de)
The last picture is that of an artwork that doubles as functional furniture by Janus et Cie. It’s not really office furniture (though I figure it can be) but it looks so cool I just had to feature it. It’s a 4-chair living room sofa with center table set that you can stack on top of each other to form this obelisk-like configuration. Pretty useful if you have a small living room space. Definitely a good conversation piece with friends and guests.
If you happen to know of other similar artworks, I’d appreciate it if you could let me know about it. I’d love to keep adding to this collection. Please email me at admin @ theofficehub.com. Thanks!
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- Unique Computer Chairs