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Hemp Chair is a counterbalanced structure stabilized by a single tensioned rope.
A chair for more than sitting. Held by fibre, gravity, and the continuous negotiation of counterbalance.

Press: Designboom, 2026

Hemp Chair - Body in Dialogue

Movement study with Hemp Chair. Performer Nitipat Ong Phonchai interacting with the chair's counterbalanced structure.

The chair carries the traces of many hands —
hemp grown in northern Thailand,
material research developed with local engineers and workshops,
slow prototyping through making, testing, and failure.

What matters here is not only the result, but the conditions under which it comes into being.

The Hemp Chair’s structural stability emerges from curved elements counterbalancing under load, forming a continuous surface that is both skin and support. There is no hierarchy between the two, and no hidden frame.

Forces move relationally, following the logic of woven structures where loads shift, adjust, and settle across the whole body. A single tensioned rope stabilizes the system, allowing the structure to hold through counterbalance rather than through mass.

Conceptually, the chair takes the loom as a quiet reference — not as a mechanism, but as a visual and cultural citation.

Contact: veronica.olariu@gmail.com

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Further material notes, process documentation, and ways to stay in conversation.