Pepe Heykoop Bricks Chair Junior

Bricks Chair Junior - Chair made from wooden toy blocks - Pepe Heykoop

Small designer chair for children, derived from the “Bricks Chair” for adults.

Dimensions Junior chair:
30 x 30 x 62 cm
Seat height: 32 cm

Designer Pepe Heykoop (1984) drew inspiration for this unusual chair from an image by American artist James Gulliver Hancock:

"The Bricks Chair was created after seeing an illustration by James Gulliver Hancock. I immediately loved the image and the chair in the left corner caught my attention. I coloured in the image and started building the Brickchair. It is the interpretation of a drawing that was already an interpretation of an existing chair. It transformed. The drawing led to this chair because both I, and the artist Hancock saw different things in the same object!"

The chair looks like a child conceived it, or perhaps one day would like to build it. The object is a very playful design, with an open-minded and naive look where one is immediately confronted with the disappearance of that open-mindedness as one gets older. It is a poetic design, created by an interpretation of an interpretation, a mirage and, as a result, one of the most extraordinary pieces of furniture in existence.

The chair is assembled from new and used wooden blocks, making each chair unique. An internal steel structure means the chair can actually be used, although a cushion is recommended for this.