Paola Antonelli, Safe: Design Takes on Risk, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005, p. 72 for a similar example; Icon Magazine, April 2005, no. 22, p. 77, fig. 5
Catalogue Essay
This series is made for people who are afraid of being abducted. The ‘Hideaway Chair’ aims to blend in with the floor so it is undetectable and opens in such a way as to not disturb items which have been set upon it. Once inside the chair, the user takes a specified body position designed to make the user feel comfortable, proud, and above all, in control. The interior is lined with felt so sounds from the inside are muffled.
2005 Laminated English oak, felt. Chair: 90.2 cm. (35 1/2 in) high; flooring: 3.8 x 295 x 202 cm. (1 1/2 x 116 1/8 x 79 1/2 in) From the ‘Designs for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times’ series. From an edition of three.