The project brief began simply: to design a children’s chair for a two-year-old girl who loves to draw. As time passed and the design evolved, the family welcomed a second child. The task shifted—expanded—into imagining a pair. In revisiting the work, we found ourselves drawn less to the chairs as isolated objects and more to the relationship between them.

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What does it mean for two chairs to embody siblinghood—similar yet distinct? How might they express friendship through a quiet sense of companionship? And, beyond the symbolic weight we inevitably place on them, how might they let go of these readings and return to their simplest forms?

 

Carrying these questions with us, we pursued an approach that acknowledges duality without dependence, closeness without sameness. We came to see the pair of chairs as a gentle proposition—something that gestures toward the everyday rituals of growing up, side by side, in a world always shared, always becoming.