Stare at the Blue Table for long enough and you might manage to figure out how it works. More likely, however, you'll have to approach it and pull out one of its apparently imbedded chairs to discover that one could in fact take a seat.
From a distance, this LensAss Architecten piece looks like a solid rectangular prism with a row of eclectic wooden dining chairs lodged into its long sides. Painted white like the dining table, they appear to be cut off just a couple of inches into the seat beyond their backrests.
Quite unexpectedly, the peculiar half-perches are merely decorative backings. They're connected to boxier chairs hidden behind the separate rectangular panels of the false continuous face of the Blue Table.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Embedded Furniture
- Designing furniture pieces that appear seamlessly integrated into another piece of furniture or structure, providing hidden functionality.
- Illusory Furniture
- Creating furniture with optical illusions that deceive the viewer's perception of its intended function or design.
- Disguised Seating
- Designing chairs that are hidden within other pieces of furniture or structures to save space and create a unique and functional design element.
Where This Applies
- Furniture
- The furniture industry can incorporate the trend of embedded chairs and other illusionary furniture concepts, to create unique and innovative product lines.
- Architecture
- Architects can incorporate embedded furniture into building designs or create structures with illusionary furniture elements to add functional elements in a space where traditional furniture is not feasible.
- Interior Design
- Interior designers can incorporate embedded furniture pieces or disguised seating into their clients' homes to save space and add unique and functional design elements.
