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5 chairs by artist designers to check out

From the funky to the extraterrestrial, these are functional art pieces that you can sit, lounge or relax on.

22 May 2024 9:00

Celina Lei

‘Fit for a King’ by Monique Chiari, featuring a pup on opening night of ‘PET SHOP’ at Craft Victoria. Photo: Michael Pham, courtesy of Craft Victoria. A small black dog with curly fur wearing a white shirt on an oversized purple chair.

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‘Fit for a King’ by Monique Chiari, featuring a pup on opening night of ‘PET SHOP’ at Craft Victoria. Photo: Michael Pham, courtesy of Craft Victoria.

Artist designers to watch:

Vincent Pocsik

Vincent Pocsik, ‘Damned to Love You’, 2021. Image: Courtesy of LOY Contemporary Art Gallery, Singapore.

Vincent Pocsik is an LA-based artist whose pieces morph the human form into fantastical objects and functional furniture with visible inspirations from folk art and fairy tales.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_

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