Karen's SESURA Chair, featured in Core77

Fantastic Industrial Design Student Work: Karen Kong's Adjustable Sesura Chair

Design, engineering, function, aesthetics. Kong nails 'em all

By Rain Noe - October 29, 2021 in Furniture Design

For her graduate project at the University of New South Wales, Industrial Design student Karen Kong designed an impressive work chair with an unusual target market: Professional orchestra members.

"Due to the high physiological demands that orchestral musicians face, 50% out of 245 musicians in Sydney's leading orchestras experience musculoskeletal injuries," writes Kong, who is herself a violinist. "In order to reduce the chances of injuries occurring, a crucial area to look into are the chairs that orchestral musicians sit on as it can have a high impact on their physiological health.

"All musicians come in different shapes and sizes. They all have different areas of their body that need to be supported and based on which instrument they play, they need to be supported by the chair differently."

On top of that, Kong designed the Sesura Chair to stack, and it's slimmer than the incumbent market-leading design.

It's also far less clunky looking, as you can see by comparing the two chairs' adjustment handles. Kong's design also allows you to adjust the Sesura one-handed, so you can keep ahold of your instrument with the other; the incumbent design requires two hands to adjust.

Kong won a Good Design Award for her efforts, and is now a freshly-minted industrial designer. Bravo!

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