Remember the hours we spent every day commuting? Whether it was to go to the office, to our favorite restaurant or by the sea, to see our much loved place at sunset?
It seems like a century ago.
Working in Naples, with an office in the very central Via Toledo, my experience of a journey was a sensory shock.
The people huddled together, the breath of that mild air wedging through bodies, the cacophony of friends greeting each other. The public service announcements, the guy with the accordion outside the station, the street vendors in the Pignasecca market. A world.
I've been living in the isolation and quiet of the furniture at home for a year and a half, and I don't think I can get on a train again without getting the chills.
Commute, the office chair without an office that replaces the office
To give me and anyone who wants the feeling of working from the office while working from home, the designer Andrew Mangelsdorf created the Commute chair.
The name “work chair” literally helps create a barrier between a home, your home, and a workspace.
Designing a home office is a luxury that not everyone can afford: we often turn our bedroom into a study and the dining table into a desk for the day.
Two configurations
With this ingenious chair, we can "travel" with our mind going from home to office without moving.
Commute has backrests that become real dividing barriers. The presence of a revolving table and a table light complete the configuration of a real workstation.
It's not all: the chair also has USB ports and contains deep pockets to hold all the accessories you need while working (including laptop, mouse and cables).
How the chair office is made
Commute's aesthetic is minimal: it adapts to the home, and the beige interior fabric acts as a professional neutral background for the (many) Zoom video calls.
The versatile nature of the chair derives from the metal hinge that supports the backrest barriers and, in effect, inaugurates "domestic commuting".
Comes to stay.
I want more than ever to get back to see my colleagues in the office up close. Work shoulder to shoulder, eat together, fight and rejoice and laugh with them.
Things have changed, however. Why for a while' it will still be like this, and why it is smart working is here to stay.
In any case, even after the pandemic, a barrier from distractions will still be needed for work and relaxation time. Furniture like this Commute chair will sell, we will see a lot of them.
Personally, I would use this “chair office” created by the designer Andrew Mangelsdorf as a reading corner, to "enclose" myself in the wonderful world of books.
