“Most museum seating is linear or forward facing, generally towards the walls exactly where the artwork is hung,” says American designer Richard Shemtov, who countered with UNITY, a wavy, modular seating method developed for the Museum of Contemporary Art’s 10,000 day-to-day guests.
Shemtov, founder of New York’s contemporary furnishings studio, Dune—and personally selected by MOMA for the site-specific project—envisioned UNITY’s sculptural, undulating kind as a automobile for enhancing the art viewing encounter, owing to the range of vantage points usually missing in standard museum seating. And the method’s flexibility—modules can be configured in a selection of seating arrangements—was a calculating design and style element. “A crucial element,” says Shemtov, “was to foster social interaction amongst the museum’s guests.”
Images: Dune
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