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A SITTING ROOM

There is a box. A place where people sit. A place where clothing exists. A place. The structure of daily life has been subdivided. Each element resolved into an independent product, each discipline kept within its own logic. This proposal refuses that fragmentation.

Based on the proportional and repetitive structures, a line expands into a plane, a plane gains thickness, and thickness becomes a room. The box that results is grounded in the function of a sofa while containing storage within.

A Sitting Room is the design of the outside of a sofa. And that outside becomes a room. Clothing, furniture, and space have each been treated as independent categories. This proposal reconstructs them as one continuous act. A minimum unit of living in which material continuity crosses between body and space.

Open the door, and materials of the Boa Cocoon Blouson from OMAR AFRIDI are revealed. Leather, boa, hardware. Different temperatures and textures, edited onto a single surface. The material collage practiced in clothing migrates into furniture and retains its logic throughout.

overview

For this exhibition, a single new work, A SITTING ROOM, produced in collaboration between OMAR AFRIDI, LEE SISAN and FORMULA, will be installed. It is a black box-like structure, approximately 2,950mm in length and 1,200mm in height, integrating sofa, storage and wardrobe into a single body. A seat sits within the central opening, where visitors can actually sit down. Doors and drawers are built into both ends and the rear; when closed, the structure reads neither as a place to sit nor as a place to store clothing. Opening the doors reveals an interior lined in leather, boa and hardware — the same materials as the collection piece BOA BUD BLOUSON — where actual garments hang. Through the act of opening and closing, visitors encounter a structure in which the material composition of clothing migrates directly into the interior of furniture.

member

A Sitting Room is a project by three parties: OMAR AFRIDI, a London-based menswear brand; SISAN LEE, an artist moving between the order of industry and the sensory register of nature; and FORMULA, a design studio working across product and spatial design. OMAR AFRIDI centres on Primitive Mode, a design philosophy born from the juxtaposition of contrasting materials and techniques. SISAN LEE examines the relationships between materials such as stone, wood and metal through sculptural experimentation. FORMULA takes the subtle tension arising between product and space as its point of departure, reconfiguring the very way things are perceived. Having together launched A Drawing Room, the OMAR AFRIDI store that opened in Takanawa, Tokyo in December 2025, the three return for a second collaboration, approaching the relationship between sculpture, furniture and clothing as a single proposition and exploring new possibilities for the display fixture.