You and I might take a sabbatical and treat it like a holiday. Stefan Sagmeister used it as a way to free up his creativity. During his 1 year stint in Bali he created several interesting pieces including this chair which appealed to me because of the intrinsically connected typography and physical material.
The words on the chair are taken from a diary written during his stay and therefore have a contextual relevance to the place where the chair will live.
Typically of Sagmeister, the chair made of indigenous Bali Rattan is not beautiful in the usual sense, however the thin red line it weaves through it’s setting, into the material used, the words written in the material and back through into the setting experienced while sitting on it, is extremely elegant and verging on genius.
So there you go, some people do their best work on holiday.
To Sagmeister
To Karim Charlebois-Zariffa (fellow Bali breaker and the person who took the photo)
