This month’s most wanted: November

There’s something rather reassuring and endearing about the familiarity of these chairs, based upon hundreds if not thousands of comfortable sittings throughout our lives. 

Starting out at school, passing the time in endless doctor’s surgeries and hospital waiting rooms, filling countless stadiums as well as popping up here, there and everywhere within the public realm, the Polyside chair has firmly established itself as a true design classic. Indeed so ubiquitous are they, with over 50 million units having being produced since Robin Day first conceived their design over 50 years ago, that we rarely acknowledge what a successful solution to mass produced seating they represent.

by Graham Powell

Gas… Hiss!     Electricity… Zap!     Water… Sploosh!

Ahh water… the utility that we really value.

Not some silent service that simply turns on the heat or flicks on the power for a myriad of consumer appliances or gadgets. Oh no.

Consider, for a moment the difference in points of delivery; valve? socket? or tap? and the experiential difference between the three; ugly? boring? or expressive? Water commands our respect and so design delivers our expectations.