From Riga, onlyonly presents Daydreamer, a collectible seating piece built on a forward-tilting steel chassis skinned in natural plant-based latex, designed to engineer the body into complete stillness.
The contradiction is structural. Daydreamer's silhouette communicates speed: the form tilts at the front, its segmented latex surface curving upward at both ends, the eight stainless steel legs splaying outward at low clearance above the ground. It looks like something built for performance. Its purpose is the opposite. Anna Liva Traumane and Harijs Vucens of onlyonly.studio designed it to produce absolute stillness in whoever occupies it, on the grounds that most people have lost access to non-performing rest.
The latex skin is natural, sourced from Hevea trees and left in its unpigmented tone, which photographs as a pale cadmium yellow. It is warm and translucent at the surface, divided into body-zone segments by stitched seams that trace the shapes of the head, arms, torso, and legs separately. The seams are not decorative. They reference yoga nidra, a practice of conscious body-scan rest, and they guide the user's weight into distinct, separated zones so that physical presence becomes something attended to rather than forgotten.
The frame below is a cast stainless steel chassis with eight individual legs and adjustment hardware visible at the floor contact points. In the side view, the S-curve of the form reads as a single gesture from floor to inclined backrest: the user's body follows that geometry. From above, the latex segmentation maps the seated form directly. There is no hidden upholstery logic; the surface explains the body position it is designed to receive.
onlyonly.studio is a design and spatial practice; Traumane and Vucens approach seating as a spatial and experiential proposition rather than an object problem. The latex against the stainless steel is as straightforward as they state it: botanical against industrial, soft against cold, unpigmented organic material against machined metal.
