Coffin-Like Chair Designs

Yeyang Liao's Coffin Chair is a Cremation-Friendly Furniture Item

This curvacious coffin chair is conceived by Yeyang Liao — a graduate from London's Central Saint Martins.

The silhouette of the furniture is curvaceous and sculptural, consisting of "12 slightly different molds" that have been arranged with a precision-centric "digital molding technique." Aside from a strikingly curious design, Yeyang Liao envisions the coffin chair to have a very specific purpose. As the notion of death has been increasingly present in projects, the young designer's curvaceous seating is also dedicated to it. As a result, the coffin chair is meant not only as a functional furniture piece, but also an object that can be used as "casting for [a] dead body before cremation. Due to this, Yeyang Liao used only wood and no metal components when developing the piece.

Cremation-friendly Furniture
Designing furniture with features specifically tailored for cremation purposes.
Curvaceous and Sculptural Design
Creating furniture with unique and artistic shapes and forms.
Digital Molding Technique
Utilizing precision-centric digital methods to create furniture molds.

Sectors Adopting This

Furniture Design
Opportunity for designers to create innovative furniture pieces for unique purposes.
Funeral Services
Incorporating innovative furniture designs into the funeral industry.
Digital Manufacturing
Application of digital molding techniques in the manufacturing sector.
SCORE
3.6 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: Europe
GENERATION
  • Gen Z
  • Gen Alpha
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 66%
Activity 33%
Freshness 9%

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