I design and make chairs for a living. I weave their seats too. Danish cord, by hand. That second part is where most people's questions start.

Doesn't that hurt your hands? Is it hard? Don't you get bored?

No, not anymore, and no.

A chair is not passive. That's easy to forget when you're looking at one seemingly lifeless from across the room.

Is a chair utilitarian, or something closer to art? I keep returning to this, and the longer I spend making chairs, the more I realise it's also something else entirely. A chair is designed around the human body. That's what makes it what it is. But in doing so, it takes on something in return, a posture, a stance. The shape of a good chair is organic in reaction to our own organic form.