Scottish designers Nick Ross and Fraser Reid have created this series of unique chairs, each altered from a set of identical archetypes.

The project, called 'Domestic Selections' was inspired by evolution and the implication of man’s hands within it.

Akin to the concept of artificial selection, these chairs take on new identities via the hand of man and through this fluid process a never-ending variety of forms, colours, materials and functions can be created allowing a very free working platform which evolves over time. 

"Unlike the design process nature cannot start from a blank canvas but instead must work with what already exists to try and develop improved variants in what is a constant development process. Nature contains no finished articles but instead is populated with passable ‘work in progresses’." say the designers.

From a starting point of solid untreated pine, the final finishes for the pieces range from rubber coatings, and layers of dye, to waxed and upholstered; presenting a varied group of evoloved seating.