The Innovative Coffee Bench : A Masterwork to Sit On
Good furniture design these days is like cheese. Everyone claims theirs’ are good but you will only know it for sure after you have brought it home. The thing that is spectacularly peculiar to furniture design though, is the fact that it should not just display a sense of class and chic but all remain modish with changing taste of times and adhere to the law of physics. Science and its imposing rules aren’t something a conventional artist would consider or stick to. Besides, to satisfy a customer you need to give him that ‘one good chair’ that is unique to his tastes and comfort. Considering all these expectations, Karolina Tylka - a product designer and Szymon Nawój - an interior architect came together and collaborated on a venture. And that is how the Polish-based Beyond Standards came into being. Their focus and clarity of thought regarding study and the demands posed by spatial and technological that is contemporary to the creation and the lucidity with which their end product is finally designed, produced and relates to the occupied ambience is evident from their conception. But by far among their best seating design is perhaps their latest Coffee Bench, which is so ingeniously simple that you wonder why no one thought of it before.


