BB Chair is a minimal chair designed by Paris-based CORPUS STUDIO for Lake Como Design Festival 2022. Neo-nomadism is the theme of this fourth edition, a concept that sweeps fluidly between real and digital life: a survey on new cultural and working nomadisms, on those that have always been present in the history of humanity and linked today to the gap economic and climate change. Neo-nomadism is perhaps not so much about mobility or traveling, as it is about adaptive responses to an increasingly dynamic world. Scientists, philosophers, discoverers, artists, and designers alike adapt to the world around them, forging new ideas and proactively exploring new territories of knowledge, science, aesthetics, and ideas, often blurring the lines between history and fantasy in the process of creation.

The BB Chair, too, alludes to fantasy, images, historic references, and ideas, without fixing on one specifically. The founding principle of the chair is the convergence of tectonic experiments in material and form, whereby, like in nature on a microscopic level, many identical parts make a whole. The basic structural form – a half of a simple wheel, forged from metal – is divided, repeated, and assembled in a poetic manner to make a chair that is aesthetically striking and surprisingly comfortable as the nape supports the back. The sand cast technique used also employs a process of repetition.