Young German designer Tino Seubert has recently developed this furniture concept called 'Forming History' based on significant moments in time.

It draws upon events such as the Nuremberg Trials, Liu Xiaobo's empty chair at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, and the Vietnam conference in the Hotel Majestic in Paris in 1973.

"I selected a number of significant moments in history, all of which involved furniture, and used each of them to develop new forms for a furniture piece. I used photographic records as reference points for each of these specific situations in history." says Seubert.

"The events of the past register as abstract shadows, deformations or traces on the newly designed object. The furniture has a way of capturing a moment and indeed steadies it in time.

Thus, it is history that gives furniture its form 'history is forming furniture' and with these pieces of furniture I would like the observer to look into the subject of history and create a consciousness about it."

Seubert also enviages an additional element to the pieces aside from good looks:

"Furthermore, the pieces should point out our responsibility for political developments around us. We can sit on the seat of a Nobel Peace Prize awardee, on a bench where a regime was accused of mass murder or around the negotiating table of the Vietnam War. The user becomes an actor in an important political scene - 'me, you, us forming history."

We think this is beautiful work; both conceptually and physically.