Client

While at VAA


Project

Google Seed House


Context

In Vilnius Academy of Arts we were tasked with creating a furniture piece for a homeware brand. I chose Google.


Problem

As technology intrudes more and more into our lives, we seek realness, tangibility, friction. The digital world seems to disappear, and we return to simpler times, to nature. The interior merges with the environment and life resembles long-term camping.


Solution
Seed House is a speculative design project that explores how Google will look like in 24 years (i.e. 2046). Based on the company's design principles and its future perspective, a collection of 5 pieces of furniture and 5 interiors were created for different living scenarios. One of those pieces of furniture, the Seed Chair, was made into a prototype.


2022

How will Google look like in 24 more years? 

In accordance to its values - Bold, Optimistic, Human - Google is moving towards the more human physical realm.

Total nature and total luxury resembles Permanent Camping. This idea was the basis for the project.

I asked my brother to imagine how future interiors would look like. It was beautiful.

The process of sketching these living scenarios lead me to the 5 pieces: Sound Rocks, Seed Chair, Peaceful Tent, Terrain Rug and Cozy Rug.

Inspired by folding stools and log cabins, the Seed Chair is heavy and large and aims to bring more friction to a frinctionless digitalized reality. The simple geometric shape and minimal function makes the chair disappear and allows the person to experience life fully. Seed Chair is made of bleached heat-treated pine logs and recycled synthetic elastic fabric.

Because of its large size and unusual shape, the Seed chair can also be used as a coffe table or a place to nap.

The 1:1 prototype was made out of large cardboard tubes, so it needed a strong internal structure. The final wooden version would have far less parts.

An archetypal house, a small wooden chapel, a barn, or a Seed House.

to find love,

belonging,

understanding

and peace.

in products or in life.

write to me.

povilas@grigas.co