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People Cooped Up at Home are Making Chair Models Using Household Items #IsolationChair

It's like a design school exercise

By Rain Noe - March 26

The "Isolation Chair" hashtag has gone viral. If you've not heard of it, it resembles a first-year Industrial Design school assignment: Grab some random materials and quickly assemble them into the likeness of a chair.

It started because during the social lockdown, Barcelona-based furniture designer Max Enrich wanted to do what many designers do: Make something. "I wanted to build something, and I thought about starting with a chair, but I couldn't find even a wood strip or rod, or a bit of clay around," he told Sight Unseen. "And then I realized you can represent…the idea of a chair with almost anything."

After Enrich posted a few photos on his Instagram…

…the internet answered, in full force:

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The sheer creativity on display is incredible. Check them all out here.

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Thank you for this post. This is really fun!

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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.