This family of furniture began with a simple question: how can we create loose, unanchored furniture for public green spaces—furniture that feels at home beneath trees, on lawns, in places where paths may not yet be paved?

Originally designed for Sophoras Park in Gistel, these galvanized steel pieces—a picnic chair, a reading chair, a table, and a bench—are shaped by the familiar language of the city. Their curving profiles and sturdy dimensions echo the forms of bicycle racks, traffic bollards, and bump barriers. Crafted from 5 cm-wide bent tubular steel, they reinterpret the robust vocabulary of civic design with a new sense of elegance and clarity.

Each piece is deliberately heavy – at 15kg for a chair they are easily moved, but not easily taken. Sturdy enough to withstand frequent use and weathering, yet light enough to leave no lasting trace on the ground. Designed to sit directly on grass, they require no hardscape, integrating seamlessly into soft landscapes.

These are objects made to stay, yet not to constrain. Their strength lies not just in their material, but in their invitation: to gather, to pause, to be together in public space - a furniture family that listens to its environment and gently reshapes it.

Program: Furniture design | Year: 2023-… | Client: self initiated | Status: under development | Prototypes: ABS | People: Matthias Salaets, Michaël Stas, Carmen Van Maercke, Eva Schütze | Photographs: Fallow (1, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14), Lars Duchateau (2, 3), Kristina Railaite (5, 6, 7)