@illstudio & @varierfurniture Varier invited Paris-based creative practice Ill-Studio to rework Peter Opsvik’s iconic GravityTM chair and present it in a new context. Through the visual language of new materials, colors and textures, Ill-Studio’s take on GravityTM extends beyond the realm of sitting, blurring the lines between emotional engineering and ergonomic fantasy. Ill-Studio envisioned the GravityTM chair as a functional sculpture that affects its users in far more ways than the mere fulfilment of physical needs. Through its positions from tasking to full zero gravity, Mind GravityTM integrates different senses into one unified perceptual experience. Peter Opsvik is a Norwegian industrial designer born in 1939, trained at the Bergen College of Applied Art and the Norwegian State College of Applied Art in Oslo. Opsvik has worked as a freelance industrial designer since 1970, and currently has his own design studio in Oslo, where he works with seven colleagues focusing on product design as a mean for solving real-life problems. Throughout his career, Opsvik has attempted to overcome our stereotypical sitting habits with his unconventional seating solutions. With a playful and human starting point, his work is a display of how norms of sitting nicely and sitting still can be broken. #illstudio #varier #etageprojects Ph @derpeterboel