More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subject to the wildest of experimentations and ideas by makers, craftspeople, engineers and designers. In recognition of the world’s most used piece of furniture, Craft presents The Chair – a celebration of its many shapes and forms.

One of the ultimate design challenges and an ever-evolving indicator of trends, the exhibition brings together 24 chairs from 31 Australian designers, artists and makers with a particular focus on exploring materials and utility. Craft’s CBD gallery will play host to a huge suite of vastly different pieces that consider the allure of the chair and its enduring hold over craft and design practitioners. A broad scope of materials and approaches from experimental to classic design will feature from some of the most innovative and renowned makers creating now.

Featuring: Anna Varendorff, Ash Allen, Ashley Eriksmoen, Bern Chandley, Bonhula Yunupingu & Damien Wright, Brodie Neill, Brud Studia, Cordon Salon, Dean Norton, Duncan Young & Noah Hartley, Georgia Weitenberg, Isabel Avendano-Hazbun, James Lemon, Jess Humpston, Jill Stevenson, Johnny Nargoodah & Trent Jansen, Nicole Lawrence & Thomas Coward, Liam Mugavin, Marta Figueiredo, Michael Gittings, Sam Tomkins, Iain [Max] Maxwell & Ben Ennis-Butler, Trent Jansen for Broached Monsters by Broached Commissions, Two Lines Studio, Zachary Frankel.

Brodie Neill, Cowrie Chair, 2013. Plywood faced with ebonised ash. Image courtesy the artist.