Hammock Chair by Skintex

Skintex is an interesting Japanese brand which made the concept of “the second skin” as the trait d’union among all its creations: Skintex fabric contains Lycra, an elastic fiber, traditionally used for apparel garments, re-proposed to complete their furniture and industrial complements. Lycra is well known in the fashion sphere, due to its properties of being thin and transparent like a spider web, with superior stretching and recovery powers. Everybody knows that even if one stretches this fiber up to seven times its initial length, once released it will spring back to its original length.

This physiological principle has been applied in the recent release by the brand, the amazing Hammock Chair, designed by Shinya Katsuya. The brand describes it as “universal design on which everyone can sit”, and actually this is universal: the simple structure of the frame, made up with morbid metallic shapes, is integrated with the durable and elastic fabric, which assumes the shape of the sitter’s body.

The chair is composed of two parts: the first one is for letting the sitter lay down his or her body, while the second part can be used both for laying feet and as a funny and modern chair. The main color of this masterpiece is black, but customization is a feasible alternative option, since these chairs are produced one by one.

Morbid and minimal curves are the prevailing trait of this composition, which could be suited for a spacious living room, but also for a modern exterior part of a cosmopolitan villa. A definite must-have.