PRODUCT DESIGN
Xose Lois Piñeira – Stay Still
by Xose Lois Piñeira
Fatigue has become a background condition of contemporary life. While working environments tolerate resting in principle, they make it impossible in practice, with no room, nor object to perform it. Stay Still is a low chair designed for twenty-minute naps in productive environments. An injection moulded chair, it sits below standard office furniture height, holds the body in a position calibrated for brief conscious rest, and stacks flat when not in use. It is affordable to produce, avaliable and efficient, although its geometry is deliberatly purposeful, and generic enough to avoid belonging to a particular kind of worker. Stay Still assumes a culture of rest and productive procrastination is forming, and offers an honest object in return.
