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Hitoshi Arato
Feb 27, 2026

The name says it: SQZY. Timo Wuchner's chair is the result of squeezing a seating typology until only the essential geometry remains—a square seat, an angled back, four slim legs, and nothing else asking for your attention.

What you notice first is the silhouette: immediately legible as a chair, but subtly unfamiliar in its proportions. The seat is wider than you expect, the back thinner. Joints are resolved with a care that rewards close looking—the kind of precision that tells you someone thought about how loads transfer, where stress concentrates, what a hand meets at an edge. The surface finish is clean, matte, undecorated, letting the geometry and the craft do all the talking. The neutral palette means this chair can inhabit any interior without competing for attention, yet once you see it, it holds its ground.

In a furniture design landscape torn between expressive excess and industrial blankness, the SQZY Chair finds a rare middle register. It is not trying to be a manifesto. It is not anonymous either. It is a considered object whose restraint is the whole statement—a chair that communicates through what it withholds, and in that compression, discovers something generous.

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Hitoshi Arato
Feb 27, 2026

The name says it: SQZY. Timo Wuchner's chair is the result of squeezing a seating typology until only the essential geometry remains—a square seat, an angled back, four slim legs, and nothing else asking for your attention.

What you notice first is the silhouette: immediately legible as a chair, but subtly unfamiliar in its proportions. The seat is wider than you expect, the back thinner. Joints are resolved with a care that rewards close looking—the kind of precision that tells you someone thought about how loads transfer, where stress concentrates, what a hand meets at an edge. The surface finish is clean, matte, undecorated, letting the geometry and the craft do all the talking. The neutral palette means this chair can inhabit any interior without competing for attention, yet once you see it, it holds its ground.

In a furniture design landscape torn between expressive excess and industrial blankness, the SQZY Chair finds a rare middle register. It is not trying to be a manifesto. It is not anonymous either. It is a considered object whose restraint is the whole statement—a chair that communicates through what it withholds, and in that compression, discovers something generous.

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If you would like to feature your works on Thisispaper, please visit our Submission page and subscribe to Thisispaper+. Once your submission is approved, your work will be showcased to our global audience of 2 million art, architecture, and design professionals and enthusiasts.
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