A research and a book about social and cultural differences analysed through chairs and ways of sittings.
People, they move, build, work, connect, bend, birth, wreck and sit. CCC took steps in
eight of the most populated countries in the world in eight months in order to better
understand the social and cultural differences analyzed through chairs. Matteo
Guarnaccia, a Sicilian designer, went around the world to portray each local culture in one
chair, collaborating with native design studios and their artisans.
Sitting is a common necessity, but do we approach it in the same way? Is the way of
gathering changing according to a globalized attitude to consuming design? Can the act of
sitting be transcendent, active and powerful? Or is the use of a chair a random, mundane behaviour? Is the chair a possible physical result of colonization? How
do chairs impact humans on a global scale? Does asking these questions matter?
People, they move, build, work, connect, bend, birth, wreck and sit. CCC took steps in
eight of the most populated countries in the world in eight months in order to better
understand the social and cultural differences analyzed through chairs. Matteo
Guarnaccia, a Sicilian designer, went around the world to portray each local culture in one
chair, collaborating with native design studios and their artisans.
Sitting is a common necessity, but do we approach it in the same way? Is the way of
gathering changing according to a globalized attitude to consuming design? Can the act of
sitting be transcendent, active and powerful? Or is the use of a chair a random, mundane behaviour? Is the chair a possible physical result of colonization? How
do chairs impact humans on a global scale? Does asking these questions matter?
