Two Chairs

Credits

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Natasha Klimchuk

Director
06/22/1980

Biography

Natasha Klimchuk is a film director, and co-founder of the Bang! Bang! Studio and Lunatum magazine. She works at the intersection of design, visual culture, and philosophy. Director of documentary films exploring design and visual culture. Based in Milan.

Filmography

2018 / 100 Years of Design / 106 min / doc 2019 / 33 Words About Design / 108 min / doc 2021 / Lepota / 108 min / doc

Directors Statement

The chair has often appeared in my life as a point of concentrated meaning. Back in university, in philosophy lectures, it was used to explain categories of being, form, utility, essence, and beauty. Later, while working with designers and recording interviews, I often heard the same phrase: “One day, I want to design my own chair.” That’s how the idea for this film emerged — organically, almost unconsciously. A chair is not just an object. It supports the body, holds it in place, and tells stories — about time, society, and language. It brings together function and meaning, idea and matter, utility and expression. It can be comfortable or awkward, modest or provocative — but it always speaks. During filming, I was interested not only in listening but in observing. How a craftsman touches wood. How a philosopher talks about objects as if they’re alive. How a designer defends a form, even if it “doesn’t work” in the conventional sense. We visited galleries, workshops, archives — spaces where the chair ceased to be a piece of furniture and became a reason: for conversation, for doubt, for exploring how we structure our own existence. This film isn’t about chairs as furniture. Two Chairs is a philosophical journey — a series of dialogues with those who engage with beauty and functionality every single day.