Day Go Modular Armchair

The core idea behind Day Go Armchair is to create a seating experience that feels like a gentle pause within fast-paced modern life.

The design was inspired by the contrast between movement and stillness. I wanted to create an armchair that not only supports the body ergonomically, but also offers emotional comfort. Its soft enveloping form is intended to give users a sense of protection, calm, and quiet retreat.

My main focus was balancing visual softness with structural clarity.

I wanted the chair to feel soft and inviting, yet maintain a strong sculptural presence. Achieving ergonomic comfort while preserving clean proportions was one of the most important challenges. I aimed to create a chair that feels equally satisfying visually and physically.

I hope to further develop Day Go into a broader furniture collection.

This may include variations in scale, materials, and complementary pieces such as ottomans or lounge systems. I also look forward to collaborating with international furniture brands to bring the design into wider production.

The origin of Day Go can be traced back to a very familiar object in Taiwanese daily life: the teapot. In Taiwanese Hokkien, the word for teapot is pronounced “Te-Koo,” and over time, the sound naturally evolved into the name “Day Go.” What fascinated me was not merely the form of the teapot, but the cultural role it plays. In Taiwanese households, offering tea is one of the most instinctive expressions of hospitality. A teapot becomes a vessel that connects people, creating moments of conversation, welcome, and companionship.When I began sketching the project, I asked myself how that emotional experience could be translated into a piece of furniture. Rather than literally reproducing a teapot, I extracted its essential qualities: warmth, containment, and generosity. This led to the armchair’s enveloping silhouette, where the continuous armrests wrap around the user much like the body of a ceramic vessel. The rounded geometry was carefully refined to communicate softness and protection rather than visual dominance.The result is a chair that carries a subtle cultural memory without relying on decorative symbolism. Day Go transforms the spirit of Taiwanese hospitality into a contemporary object, allowing users from different cultural backgrounds to experience the same sense of welcome, comfort, and human connection.

I believe sustainability should not be treated as an additional feature but as a fundamental design responsibility. For decades, the furniture industry has largely operated under a linear model in which products are manufactured, consumed, and eventually discarded. Day Go was developed as a response to that pattern through a Design for Disassembly strategy that allows the chair to be easily separated into distinct material streams for maintenance, repair, and future recycling.More importantly, I hope this approach can redefine the meaning of luxury. Traditionally, luxury has often been associated with rarity, exclusivity, or excessive material consumption. In contrast, I believe responsible luxury is measured by longevity. A well-designed object should be capable of evolving with its owner, remaining useful and desirable over many years rather than becoming disposable.The modular architecture of Day Go enables components to be replaced individually instead of requiring the entire product to be discarded. By making repairability and material recovery part of the design language, the chair encourages users to view furniture as a long-term relationship rather than a short-term purchase. My hope is that consumers will begin to associate quality not only with aesthetics and comfort but also with transparency, durability, and environmental responsibility.

One of the most demanding aspects of developing Day Go was ensuring that the chair could be disassembled effortlessly while maintaining the seamless appearance inspired by ceramic craftsmanship. From the beginning, I wanted to avoid visible fasteners because they would interrupt the calm and fluid character of the design. However, concealing the connections while preserving structural integrity required numerous iterations and engineering experiments.The final solution divides the chair into three primary modules: the recyclable outer shell, the heavy-duty swivel mechanism, and the upholstered seating component. Each element is connected through mechanical fastening systems rather than adhesives, allowing components to be separated when necessary without damaging adjacent materials. During prototyping, we repeatedly evaluated assembly sequences, maintenance accessibility, and long-term durability to ensure that hidden connections remained reliable under everyday use.This process revealed an important lesson. Circular design is often perceived as a technical challenge, but it is equally a design challenge. The success of a disassemblable product depends on whether sustainability can be integrated without compromising the emotional and aesthetic qualities that attract users in the first place. Day Go became an exploration of how engineering logic and visual simplicity can coexist within a single object.