Projects

Heath Nash x Wunders Seating Project

This project begins with what already exists: a collection of sample chairs and chair parts at Wunders, waiting to be reimagined.

Developed in response to this year’s Decorex theme, the project explores how experimentation, applied wisdom and practical sustainability can shift the way we think about furniture design. Rather than beginning with a blank page, the process starts with limitation; existing forms, available materials, a focused timeline and the challenge of creating something meaningful from what is already on hand.

At the centre of the project is the idea that process is primary. Inspired by Heath Nash’s long-standing approach to sustainability, waste, social impact and “first doing no harm”, the seating solution looks at discarded, unused or overlooked components as a starting point for new design possibilities.

The project also draws reference from Martino Gamper’s 100 Chairs in 100 Days, where found chairs were combined, altered and reinterpreted to create new functional objects. In a similar spirit, the Wunders seating project treats each chair as part object, part story and part experiment, exploring how inherited forms, previous uses and visible limitations can become the foundation for something fresh.

The result is not only a furniture piece, but a design investigation. It asks how constraints can unlock creativity, how waste can become material, and how existing parts can be given renewed value through thoughtful intervention.

For Wunders, this project reflects a considered approach to contemporary furniture: one that is practical, sustainable, experimental and deeply rooted in the process of making.