The Swell, a marvelous chair from Swedish design studio Form Us With Love, is something between a classic beanbag chair and what I imagine sitting in a puff pastry would be like. The Swell resembles a delicate version of the old puffy thing we would sit in and play video games at our friends house. But the more mature feature of the Swell is its cage that conforms the lose beanbag to a formal seat.
The cage pinches the bean bag into a seat with a stand that props you into a less lazy position of attention. Still, there is the inevitable comfort of a beanbag chair’s cloud-like cushion, but the Swell is for us older folk who want to maintain some childlike laziness but make pretend like we are all business.
In another way, without anyone sitting on it, the Swell looks like a freshly-baked puff pastry exploding with that intoxicating scent of a bakery in the early morning.
Photography: Charlie Bennet.
Photography courtesy of Form Us With Love.
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