keita suzuki forms chair from all the tears you will shed in a lifetime

keita suzuki forms chair from all the tears you will shed in a lifetime
all images courtesy of product design center

it is said that the average human will shed 64-liters of tears in their lifetime. by visualizing this concept, keita suzuki of japanese firm product design center has developed the ‘tear drop chair’, a furniture piece that allows us to realize that our lives consist of numerous events that bring us happy and sad emotions. the experience of ‘sitting on water’ is something one could rarely experience. the enclosing material surface simply consists of 0.3mm-thick vinyl plastic, providing the feeling of actually touching a droplet of liquid.

the pieces allow you to sit on water

‘if there were to be a product designer-like response to this project, it would have to be that the initial idea was to create a chair that would not damage the grass,’ says suzuki. stemming from his philosophy of respecting the environment with a minimal impact on its ground, he has also formed other constructs with the body fluid content of a child, adult, and polar bear. produced by NHK educational TV and directed by galileo-kobo, under the theme ‘design x science x chair’, the collection is currently on display at the tokyo midtown design touch 2014 inside the ‘suwari forest’.

a giant water droplet that contains the same quantity of water as the body fluid of a polar bear

64 liters of water

standing on the 0.3mm-thick vinyl plastic

floating on the surface

children playing on the water droplet

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