Hasta La Ideas

Matali Crasset has officially made it into my book of the most out-there designers with the most-difficult-to-navigate websites, but peeping her user-configurable seating is well worth enduring the torturous interface. Since the ’90s, the experimental designer has conceived of her work as “a research movement, made of hypotheses more than principles.”

We’ll start off simple. Her 1997 Il Capriccio di Ugo armchair featured armrests that could be flipped down into trays:

Crasset’s Decompression Chair from 2000 featured a “backpack” of sorts made from a parachute-like material, and could be inflated to turn the entire thing into an armchair:

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