The other day I heard about a Parisian cordwainer who creates handmade leather shoes tailored to your foot size and shape. Supposedly, his shoes are so well made that a large french corporation in the design industry bought his business to keep his practice afloat.

Munich. Designed by Sauerbruch Hutton.

Believe it or not, the same sort of precise, tailor-made business occurs in architectural projects interested in a customized design. Take the Munich Lounge Chair by the architects at Berlin-based firm, Sauerbruch Hutton. They worked with the contract furniture company ClassiCon to bring their pieces to life, and they’re now available to the public.

The Munich Lounge Chairs fit perfectly into the firm’s modern Museum Brandhorst located in – you guessed it – Munich, Germany. Opened in May 2009, the museum houses 700 works of modern art from artists like Andy Warhol, Andy Katz, and Cy Twombly. Although the chairs themselves cannot be tailored to our many rear sizes and shapes, they have all of the versatile qualities that a museum crowd could dream of.

The thick, embracing chair was released at the 2010 IMM Cologne show in frames of oak or walnut that are then stained and clear varnished. The upholstery uses an inner fiberglass shell with polyurethane in different thicknesses, and can be covered in either fabric or leather.

The base of the chair is 59cm wide and the back/armrests extend out to a spacious 96 cm. The height of the seat is 41cm, the height of the entire chair is 71cm, and the depth of the chair is 71cm. Altogether, there is enough comfort and style in the Munich Lounge Chair for the conference room or lounge areas while the other two versions – the original Munich Chair and the edgy Munich Armchair – can transfer the desired aesthetic harmony to the cafeteria, foyer, and lecture hall areas.

With a solid wood foundation and chasmal seat of the Munich Lounge Chair, it’s nice to trust the highly-engineered Sauerbruch Hutton design – without a blueprint.