Don’t worry, the bench won’t eat you
Friday June 05th 2009, 6:41 pm
Filed under: Art,Form,Furnishing,Illumination,Materials

Sebastien Wierinck furniture: OnSite Studio

…Is what I would say to the girl in red who looks a little suspicious of the black tubing hanging over her. This particular piece is part of a temporary installation in Berlin, Germany in the Info Art & Furniture Gallery by Sebastien Wierinick, Belgian designer who creates furniture out of interesting materials and sculptural forms for interior spaces and public seating as well as temporary artistic installations.

Sebastien Wierinck furniture: OnSite Studio

OnSite Studio “characterises itself materially by the use of industrial flexible tubes, formally by its fluid and organic forms and conceptually by a variable design and production process. Using the principles of ‘programmation’, the system offers a huge range of applications in term of typology, function and scale. The studio can thus respond to most demands, by an appropriate and individual proposition.” via their website.

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The images above and below are of a bench in the restaurant Tokyo Eat of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. I love the way the flexible tubing wraps up and around to form some nice tush-sized spaces and arm and back rests. It seems very well molded to the human body.

Bench in Tokyo Eat by Sebastien Wierinck

Next is an interesting integrated bench and reception desk in Lyon, France. The long fleixible tubing creates one long form that is molded and warped in opposite and complimentary directions.

Sebastien Wierinck integrated desk and bench

This temporary installation in Brussels, Belgium features red variation on the black bench. Somehow it seems less threatening and alien-like in red. It takes on a wave-like pattern that flows up and down and side to side to form benches that face in both directions and different molded shapes. I love the different spaces the bench creates for different sized groups.

Sebastien Wierinck furnture: OnSite Studio
imagse via contemporist


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Artistic. Are they comfortable to sit on, though?

Comment by Ianny 06.09.09 @ 7:22 pm

It’s a good question and one that always follow furniture art. Although some of these pieces are actually installed in public environments and the artist has a series of benches that are a bit more simple in design.

I’d like to think the artist took this into consideration as the curves look formed around the human body. Perhaps the ridges of the tubes might feel like a back massage!

Comment by Lisa Town 06.10.09 @ 5:02 pm



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