Budapest born designer and winner of this year's ICFF award, Gabriella Asztalos has designed the Hug chair. It's circular form provides a perfect hideaway designed for intimacy, with its two seats, which sit side by side, conducive to conversation. With a walnut-wood outer layer, and leather padded seats, it's the perfect balance between form and function.
Asztalos explains her design and choice of name for the chair:
A unique uni-body circular structure connects both seats together allowing two people to sit face-to-face and thus creating an immediate intimate interaction.Through this physical connection, you feel socially and emotionally connected with the person sitting on the opposite side. The upper “half-pipe” which bends above the heads creates a highway of thoughts and a chain of emotions. In this way you are interconnected within the same circle and the focus is always on the other person, exactly what a hug is about.