Lattice Chair Weaving Armchair

Woven wooden forms have carried profound symbolic meaning across cultures, representing the interconnection of individual elements into unified wholes, the transformation of raw material through skilled human hands, and the patient accumulation of small gestures into substantial creation. Chen Kuan-Cheng's Lattice Chair Weaving Armchair activates these ancient associations while embedding contemporary meanings related to sustainability, material honesty, and the reconciliation of craft tradition with industrial innovation. The continuous flow of wooden strips from back through seat suggests organic growth patterns, evoking root systems, river networks, or neural pathways where discrete elements merge into integrated living systems. The lattice pattern itself carries mathematical and philosophical resonance, representing the intersection of horizontal and vertical forces, the warp and weft that structure woven textiles worldwide, and the grid as fundamental ordering principle underlying both natural crystalline structures and human-made architecture. The choice of natural wood with visible grain honors the tree's biography, each ring and figure recording years of growth, seasonal variations, and environmental conditions, transforming the chair into a vessel carrying temporal depth and ecological connection. The warm amber and blonde palette evokes hearth, harvest, and handwork, colors associated across traditions with nourishment, warmth, and domestic security. The shadow cast upon the concrete wall functions as a meditation on presence and absence, the solid made ephemeral, three dimensions collapsed to two, suggesting Buddhist concepts of form and emptiness or Platonic ideals of shadows as intimations of higher realities. The accompanying book and spectacles introduce intellectual symbolism, positioning the chair within traditions of the scholar's study, the philosopher's retreat, the contemplative space where mind engages with accumulated wisdom. The armchair form itself carries archetypal weight as throne, as embrace, as invitation to pause and be held, the open arms welcoming the sitter into protected space. The integration of rigid frame with flexible woven surface may suggest the complementary relationship between structure and adaptability, between skeleton and flesh, between principle and responsive presence in lived experience.

The word “lattice” means lines intertwined with, and intersecting, each other horizontally and vertically.Especially use Taiwan's high-quality bamboo with excellent toughness,combines bamboo craft into woodcraft via weaving bamboos and bent woods together. By preserving and integrating the flexibility of bamboos and the firmness of wood, so weight of the chair is only 4 kg, but it can withstand more than 120 kg, the lighter weight allows the elderly and children to move around more easily.
Single-sided armrest design allows users to sit in a variety of ways, more free and flexible.