Posture Chair
Maintain good posture during the course of your meal
The Posture Chair utilizes an early 20th century arts and crafts style chair frame as the base for a piece that emphasizes proper posture at the table. While the hollowed out seat replaced by a thick dowel requires the consumer to be seated at a 10-degree slant, the consumer is obliged to engage their quads in order to remain seated on the chair. This exertion of the leg muscles and core has a reverberating effect through the body that positively impacts and strengthens correct back posture.
The nearly invisible backrest reinforces this concept by creating a moment of hesitation when sitting down. The notion of unreliability reinforced by the slight give of the fishing wire thus drives the consumer to maintain their posture throughout the meal as opposed to slouching or relaxing back on the chair back.
Atalier HOKO. Science of the Secondary: Plate. Atalier HOKO, 2018.
Materials & Details
Oakwood chair
2" hardwood round dowel
Semi-gloss white spray paint
Monofilament fishing line
Fishing line is attached on top and bottom
Dowel is not attached to chair
Dowel is slightly longer than seat frame
Dimensions
17" x 14" x 44.5"
(Length x Width x Height)
All measurements are approximations