Take A Seat began as a personal pilot project — exploring everyday chairs across cultures, casually and curiously. The idea first took shape while I was in rural China, visiting remote villages and observing how chairs inhabit daily life in quiet, unassuming ways.

As I travelled across Vietnam, these humble objects continued to draw my attention — through their forms and functions, colours and materials, and the ways they respond to the human body and the surrounding environment.

This ongoing work questions what ergonomics and anthropometrics might mean today, beyond standardized metrics — towards a more situated understanding of the relationship between body, object, and environment. The chairs, weathered by sun, rain, and time, embody resilience and local wisdom that often go unnoticed.

The project remains open-ended; it seeks to trace a Southeast Asian narrative of design — one that speaks softly, through the poetry of the everyday, where form is not imposed, but emerges organically from life itself.