Soft Baroque
Dancing Chair, 2019
Walnut wood
18.5 x 19.625 x 30.375 in.
Courtesy Soft Baroque

Soft Baroque
Founded by Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin, Soft Baroque is a London-based collective known for objects that merge sculpture, furniture, and image. Their work exists at the intersection of craft and digital aesthetics, interrogating how visual culture, technology, and consumer habits shape perception by producing works that are surreal and uncannily expressive.

Soft Baroque’s Dancing Chair combines digital illusion with physical function, creating a distorted form that interrogates the visual codes of furniture in the post-internet era. Crafted in walnut wood, the chair is engineered to wobble or “dance” on its axis when occupied, referencing the iconic kinetic store display shelves of the early millennium.