Hundreds of used black plastic chairs cover the facade of this furniture shop, which architecture studio Chybik + Kristof has created inside a former car showroom in the Czech city of Brno.

The former showroom was in need of an update, with the building's exterior lacking any visual connection to the company or its products.
The furniture company MY DVA Group jokingly requesting Ondrej Chybik and Michal Kristof "do it cheap, ideally for free." Their solution was to create a sculptural facade requiring minimal interference with the original building.
Chybik and Kristof used the seats from 900 generic black plastic seats ? costing around 80 CZK (£2.50) each ? to create the cladding.
The novel design feature acts as an advertisement for the office and school furniture company, with an added element of comedy. "We are a young studio and we think all our designs should be a bit funny," Ondrej Chybik told Dezeen. "But in a smart way of sharing information about the building's programatic function."

The chairs cover three sides of the 550-metre-square space, with an angular, black-boxed entrance protruding from the irregular surface of the exterior wall.
The thematic building is situated on the outskirts of Vinohrady, a housing estate built in Brno in the early 1980s. The original structure of the car showroom was built in the 1990s, in line with the "non-architectural" commercial buildings that populate the local ar...