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WILMER T
Wilmer T – These days, when it’s time for dinner, it’s easier to send a text message
than to shout for your kids. Young people are permanently plugged in with headphones,
cutting themselves off from any external signals or unnecessary sound.
And if you take a little while to study your environment, you realise that everything
has changed, at the same time that almost everything still looks the same, and that
decoration and architecture is often more about how things normally look than how they
could be. And if you look at the wider perspective and compare it to the small, human
perspective of how we are, how we function and why we do things in a particular way
– then it’s easy to fnd a world of opportunities opening up.
Together with Stefan Borselius we removed everything down to the smallest components,
like right and left halves of the brain. One half is analytical, calculating, thinking – while
the other is active, creative and passionate.
From that point, our smallest common denominator, we felt we could perhaps come
closer to the “multitasking generation” and create a hybrid model for their needs.
A hybrid between the size of an offce chair and the comfort of an armchair – a thinking
side, with a raised armrest that helps you to think, and an active side, with different
tables for different purposes.
Normally chairs like this have only one work surface – which is always irritatingly small
and doesn’t work for more than one activity. We gave Wilmer T two table and work
surfaces. Otherwise, where can you set down your wine, coffee or juice when you pick
up your laptop? Or vice versa. And what if someone sat on the table beside the chair
– that has to work too. And if you need to take a break – then you just twist the upper
table out of the way and off you go.
Voilà, Wilmer T. A hybrid for the new generation. Which works just as well for everyone,
regardless of age.
Design: Stefan Borselius 2O12
