British studio Holloway Li has collaborated with furniture producer Uma Objects on T4, a modular collection of chubby seats that evoke designs found in 1990s popular culture and launched during London Design Festival.
The studio's first furniture collection comprises a legless and armless puffy seat made from fibreglass and coloured upholstery.
Its bulbous form was chosen for its association with the rounded furniture designs popular in the 1990s, such as inflatable chairs and the distinctive chair used on the set of the British reality television series Big Brother.
Holloway Li has released its first furniture collection
"We referenced the 90s as a kind of genesis, or starting point of the idea because it's just a bit more fun ? something that's not too sober or too polite," said Holloway Li co-founder Alex Holloway. "It's a bit like if the Big Brother diary room chair and Salvador Dali's sofa had a love child," Holloway told Dezeen, referring to the artist's Mae West Lips sofa.
"We wanted to get the balance between the retro aesthetic but at the same time the optimism that came at that time."
T4 draws on playful shapes popular in the 1990s
The designers chose to name the collection T4 after its previous pieces T1, T2 and T3, which they created for private interior projects including the Bermonds Locke Hotel.
Coincidentally, the name was used for British broadcasting channel Channel 4's cult weekend show T4, which became synonymous with the yo...