The Last Shift Office Chair
The English name of “The Last Shift Office Chair” is translated as “The Last Shift Office Chair”. Designed by British designer Chairbox, it is an office chair with a unique design concept and symbolic significance.
Appearance Features
This chair closely resembles a traditional coffin in appearance, and there is even a version with a lid. This unique design makes it stand out among numerous office chairs, delivering a strong visual impact at first glance and breaking people's固有 (fixed, here it means traditional) perception of traditional office chairs.
Design Concept
Its design concept is profound and critical, aiming to remind people that the feeling of working long hours is similar to death. In today's society, the culture of overtime work is becoming increasingly serious, and the culture of striving is also over-hyped. Many people sacrifice a large amount of personal time and health for work. By designing the office chair in the shape of a coffin, the designer criticizes this unhealthy social phenomenon in an intuitive and shocking way. The designer also said, “Once an employee dies at work, the management only needs to nail on the lid and roll them into the corporate cemetery.” This statement further emphasizes the indifference of the overtime culture towards employees' lives and the cold attitude of enterprises under this culture.
Symbolic Significance
This chair symbolizes boring and uninteresting meetings, making people feel helpless and depressed. Meetings are common activities in office settings, but often, they are inefficient and have lengthy content, leaving participants feeling tired and bored. As a commonly used item in meetings, the coffin-like design of the office chair vividly expresses how people feel in such meetings, as if trapped in an invisible cage, losing freedom and vitality. At the same time, it also reflects the enormous pressure and difficulties faced by employees in modern workplaces, prompting people to think about the balance between work and life.
