29/07/2025
Romanian Participation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
HS01 chair is a collectible design piece and part of the Human Scale project hosted in the New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research. Made from stainless steel, its construction emphasizes transparency, precision, and structural clarity. The material’s cold lucidity becomes a vessel for critique: a surface that rejects ornament yet amplifies presence. Within this constructed sterility, the chair calls attention to tactility and the act of inhabitation. More than a functional object, it becomes a spatial extension of the exhibition’s scenography, an architectural fragment projected into a post-technological future. Its angular geometry and exposed construction speak of utility, while its sculptural presence suggests permanence. Far from neutral, HS01 holds tension, between function and fiction, becoming a silent interlocutor in the ongoing reflection on space, value, and human presence.
HUMAN SCALE
Vlad Nancă & Muromuro Studio
Curated by Cosmina Goagea
Crafted by Kaustik
Photos by YWP Studio