When I saw this design, I was surprised that this is far beyond a merely functional sofa, and it is more like a legend to me because it has add some spirits to the sofa and to the people who are to sit on it. While it is high-class furniture, it adds color to the black and white urban life. Finding the interesting tales inside the sofa, I felt like I had entered another world, where my dreams in childhood like those in Disney movies had come true.
While the society is more and more fast-paced and people’s life is much more condensed, people lost the opportunities to stop and look around to appreciate their gifted lives. Therefore, designers want to create something to slow down people in the urban.
This sofa is called “Life is Suite”, meaning the stories and spirits of life are secretly and quietly absorbed into the comfortable sofa, where we usually sit on as a resting station. It is quite beautifully designed to make sure it adds artistic feeling to the whole interior design and gives a joyful sense to people who sit on it. While people admire the unusual and artistic design of this furniture, it is not hard to find the “design inside the design”. It is quite surprising for them to find out that each breakable part of the sofa (like cushion) is filled with stories and tales illustrated by pictures and words that are interestingly layout. Therefore, people have already developed much passion to take time and read the stories.
I think this design is perfect for homes with a warm family having kids jumping on it and parents reading the stories with them. It is giving a life to the sofa and especially for the innocent children, the sofa is not merely an object, it is someone with a personality and will tell them interesting stories. If I had this sofa at home when I was a kid, I think I would love to sleep on it, like a baby-sitter is hugging me into sleep. Or If I was a workaholic who comes home after a busy day, I would love to jump on it for a long rest because I feel like it is charging me up with its spirits when I am having an empty mind after a long day work.
Also, I think this sofa is great for commercial places, where people always get tired and need a place to rest on. It is really a spot for people to slow down and have a leisure time by enjoying the tales in sofa. Many people need to have a seat while they are waiting to see someone in the commercial building, and this sofa would give them much relax while anxiously and nervously waiting for the boss or the job interviewer. Someone said life in the commercial field, it is like in a war everyday. If so, this sofa is definitely a place in peace.
With so many complicated content, it is actually a very simple design. As the pictures shows, the story on cushion is somehow shown so that it is easy for the users to find. Also, they can also flip the cushion over and decide whether they want the stories to show or hide, for a sense of mystique or aesthetic.
However, I think there is a flaw for this sofa design. Even though it is designed for people to read the tales, I think pure type is somehow not creating strong emotional change to people. Therefore, I would probably suggest inserting an audio track inside the cushion for the effect that someone is really telling the story. In this way, it not only solves the problems that many people now don’t like to read a lot of words, and also audio would create flow and emphasizes on some details and add some mysterious feelings to the tales.
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