Go on, wear your chair
The second edition of our chair-based merch series dropped this week
Furniture and clothing are basically the same thing — one is just more portable than the other.
We’ve been thinking a lot over the past few years about the role that furniture plays in our lives beyond just supporting the weight of our bodies: it’s become a symbol of deeper meaning and a cultural touchpoint for our interests, hopes, and dreams.
About a year and a half ago (maybe more), our friend Matt Pecina of Studio Guapo started using the expression “wear your chair” to refer to both his collection of archival furniture-based clothing but also to a larger movement: this idea of furniture being something worth throwing on a shirt.
This seminal idea soon became a part of the identity of Pink Essay, leading to a combination shirt drop + exhibition last November in Brooklyn, which featured the first iteration of our WYC (Wear Your Chair) shirt series, which featured chairs by 25 designers from around the world.
Since then, we’ve decided to keep things going and drop a chair shirt every now and then. This week, we launched the WYC 2.0 shirt, which features 12 designers from around the globe and a new look (we’ve been very into spheres lately).
Wear Your Chair is our love letter to the state of design — a quickly growing community of designers and designheads alike who find expression and connection through the simple structure of a seat. We hope you enjoy and consider submitting your designs to the next edition (whenever that may be). For now, thank you for being a part of our chair-oriented community — you all really know how to wear a chair.
