The EASELY couch
Made of plywood and raw canvas, these basic building blocks of a painters canvas, in their neutral state, allow infinite possibilities for creative intervention. Just as a painter might react to a blank canvas, the user can make their mark on the furniture. Any intervention is welcome: painting, spilling, embroidery, patchwork, or cautious preservation.
The couch is not an artistic tool in the way an easel is, but is rather a prompt for new perspective, creativity, and play in the leisure setting. Functionally, the furniture enables this through the traditional worker’s stool situated in the center of the couch – creating new configurations to experience conversation, rest, or observation.
This piece was inspired by the easel and the artist’s stool, both of which are defined by their ability to change the height of the artwork or the artist, allowing for new perspectives, ways of working, and ways of seeing. In the same way, this furniture invites shifts in viewpoint and interaction, but within the context of home. Like an art practice, furniture too is capable of prompting creative expression.
