Drawing on the optimism of reconnecting, embracing, and dancing together again, The Dancer Chair by Nüüd Studio was designed specifically as an installation and object for the MPavilion held in the summer of 2021-2022
The commissioned chair design for this season's MPavilion, an annual architectural pavilion located in the Alexandra Gardens of Melbourne. MPavilion 2021 was designed by Italian architecture firm MAP Studio.
Words by Nüüd Studio
Photography by Gavin Green
The Dancer chair is designed as a specific installation and object for the MPavilion held in the summer of 2021-2022, located in the Alexandra Gardens of Melbourne. The design is a direct response to the pavilion, designed by Italian architecture firm MAP Studio, and the pavilion is a unique commission celebrating ideas, culture, people, arts and design.
The competition brief for the commission from MPavilion was to design a chair to facilitate the many talks and events that it will host outdoors over the summer. The Dancer chair draws on the optimism of reconnecting, embracing and dancing together again. The chairs are first conceived as a singular, drawn circle under the canopy of the MPavilion.
The competition brief for the commission from MPavilion was to design a chair to facilitate the many talks and events that it will host outdoors over the summer.
Brief
The individual chairs then form from the divisions of equal segments with each chair bearing the mark of open hands. The chairs disconnect and embrace in a continuous dance in and around the pavilion forming arcs and ribbons as events and meetings are held. Each chair is a gentle arc, a memory of the greater circler they can form again. The interactive nature of the project and its ideas of unity and togetherness considers the rituals of communal gathering and how we might repair our apprehension to public socialising today.
The Dancer chairs are made from recycled milk and juice bottles which are first shredded, melted, dyed and turned into pellets to then be combined and composed into any mixture of colours. The composition of colours for the chair reflect the flowing yellow ground, steel structure and reflection of the clouds in the LightCatcher MPavilion.
Nüüd is a Melbourne architecture and design studio founded by Kerli Valk and Bradley Mitchell. Sustainability is engrained in the way they design and build, by working with local materials and local craftspeople to create robust and beautiful places.
Words by Nüüd Studio
Nüüd Studio’s Instagram: @nuudstudio
Nüüd Studio’s Website: nuud.com.au
Photography by Gavin Green
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