“This space is my space. This space is your space.”

Viennese design firm Walking Chair presents ” You May,” a super-functional, incredibly playful furniture series for the public space. Its multipurpose nature makes it a workable bar and bench, conference table and quiet corner all at the same time. It’s a lounge, a stage, a shelf, a workspace, and a private nook. You can eat on it, lay on it, play on it, meet and work on it, display on it.

Walking Chair’s design duo – Karl Emilio Pircher & Fidel Peugeot – created “You May” to provide urban planners and residents with a versatile instrument for enhancing the quality of the public space and filling it with a new, lively spirit. The first edition was finished during May 2009 for the Aarhus Festuge (Århus Festival Week) in Denmark and it was exhibitited at the Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design in Berlin in August 2009. This month, “You May” welcomes visitors to “Surprising Ingenuity – Austrian Design” (produced by Advantage Austria), an exhibit comprising 41 Austrian design creations. “You May” has been placed in the courtyard of Fabrica Bugatti at the Milanese Zona Tortona (which runs at the same time as the Salone Internazionale del Mobile).

YOU MAY be a public furniture
YOU MAY be a working space
YOU MAY be a public desk
YOU MAY be a relaxing spot
YOU MAY be a meeting point
YOU MAY be a city bench
YOU MAY be a knowledge space
YOU MAY be an outdoor bar
YOU MAY be a popular stage
YOU MAY be a beer garden table
YOU MAY be a landebahn (runaway)

YOU MAY be a missing link
YOU MAY be my new friend
YOU MAY be so beautiful
YOU MAY be my everything

*Images courtesy of Walking Chair.