Sadie Reuter

Bone Chair

Sadie Reuter is a designer focusing on furniture design. Her work utilizes pattern and striking geometry to create a sense of continuity and visual interest. The history of osseous materials goes back at least 480,000 years, with the oldest archaeological example. However, in the hundreds of millennia since, bone has stopped being used as people became disconnected from the idea of using all of an animal. The Bone Chair is a work that aims to bring the ancient material of bone into a contemporary design setting and aims to find a balance between the original form of the bones and obscuring them to create a more contemporary visual effect. Deer tibia and fibula are used because they are strong enough to support a person and are visually distinct as bone. The chair utilizes a pattern created by the bones and the user’s physical interactions to force people to connect with the material and its source. The seat of the chair is made of cut flat pieces that the user can interact with and one continuous piece inspired by the curve of bones forms each side of the chair and includes more intact pieces to heighten the visual read.