- year: 2026
The design of this chair reinterprets one recognizable objects of contemporary industrial design.
The metal structure, typically neutral and purely functional, is transformed through the application of a colored camouflage pattern. Irregular patches spread across the tubular surface, creating a tension between the precision of industrial production and the unpredictability of natural forms.
Camouflage historically originates from military use: it is the visual language that allows soldiers, vehicles, and equipment to blend into the landscape and move unseen. It is, fundamentally, the graphic expression of war.
Here, however, its meaning is reversed.
Camouflage no longer serves to conceal movement for combat, but becomes an invitation to rediscover a connection between human beings within nature. The industrial object par excellence—born from a refined manufacturing process—now seeks a path back to the landscape. It becomes a manifesto for peace.
At a time when the world seems to be moving closer to conflict, this chair represents the opposite act: to stop.
War is movement, advance, annihilation.
The Sánchez Chair declares the contrary: We sit. We talk. We solve.
Caesar, in our day, would have said: “Sedi, dixi, pacavi”
Sitting is the beginning of dialogue.
In ancient Greece—the cradle of Western political and philosophical thought—citizens and philosophers gathered in public spaces to discuss the matters of the polis. In symposia and agoras, wise figures such as Socrates taught that truth does not emerge from force, but from the exchange of ideas.
Sitting together was the first step toward understanding one another.
This chair recalls that tradition: transforming an everyday object into a space for encounter.
The camouflage pattern, removed from its military function, becomes a symbol of reconciliation between humanity, nature, and society.
Because conflicts are not resolved by advancing. They are resolved by sitting down.
Its name is a tribute to the Spanish president who had the courage to stand against calls for war.
Click here to read the English transcript of President Pedro Sánchez’s address to the Spanish people on March 4, 2026.
