The Smock Lounge Chair adapts traditional fabric manipulation techniques to create a piece of sculptural furniture in celebration of hand stitching. Made entirely from natural materials, the chair's timber frame is built up using traditional upholstery methods - layers of coconut fibres, horsehair, hessian and calico - before being dressed in a hand-pleated ivory cotton drapery. Some 60 metres of deadstock cotton make up the drapery alone, bringing to light the colossal scale of surplus fabric generated by the fashion industrial complex.

The chair's fabric layers contain over 18,000 individual hand stitches. Each one honours the history of stitching as a quietly radical act, used as a tool for survival, repair, protest and the passing down of memories and skills through generations of women. Hundreds of tiny gathers create complex forms, with pleated pockets stuffed with loose organic wool to produce soft, irregular bulges and contours that ripple and swell across the surface like a rolling landscape. The cotton edges are left deliberately raw and unfinished with threads unravelling, whilst lengths of waxed thread hang from the frame offering a glimpse into the process.

Developed for Collect 2026 and exhibited with Max Radford Gallery.