I contend that a purebred puppy with registered papers is much like a beautiful chair from a well-respected design company. It is going to be great and it will be as magnificent as you expect it to be, should no catastrophic events alter its demeanor. For the wonderful rescue dogs and mutts out there – with a dotted history of trauma or neglect – one must tell their story. I would equate their growth to that of the plantation chairs of Werner Aisslinger‘s Chair Farm that debuted at Salone this year.

Chair Farm. Designed by Werner Aisslinger.

Growing a Chair with Pure Green Motivation: The Chair Farm by Werner Aisslinger.

Presented as in the Instant Stories exhibition by DMY of eco-friendly, modern seating in an artful display that dives into the Chair Farm story, Werner Aisslinger captivated the Milan Furniture Fair audience in Ventura Lambrate. As described by Berlin-based Studio Aisslinger, “Amidst the platforms showing the latest in furniture design, a greenhouse is staged. Visitors are confronted with a gigantic box that gives the impression as if it has just fallen from heaven.”

Continuing, they write that “this laboratory-like stage setup promises to be as spectacular as watching a dinosaur hatch from its egg: A chair is born from a steel corset! The only difference to the egg-comparison is the fact that the shell of the “chair farm” prototype is inside the chair’s structure instead of being outside.”

“After the removal of the corset, a unique chair is revealed – truly singular, because nature cannot be programmed to deliver a certain result.” So just as a garden’s seeds take shape in distinct sizes and bearing varying fruits, the Chair Farm gives us a bit of organic indulgence that touches on design as well as the growing spirit that fascinates us.

About the Designer: Werner Aisslinger is a German designer whose plantation chairs of the Chair Farm are produced by no “classical sense of the word”. Experimentally approaching functional design, industrial design and architecture has brought Aisslinger great success since he began his journey. An example of his imagination would be his “Juli chair for Cappellini that included a new type of foam, polyurethane integral foam, that was the first piece of its kind. This chair would become the first German chair design to be selected as a permanent exhibit at the MoMA in New York since 1964.