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Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.

— Yves Behar

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✓Similar Perspectives

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

— Yves Behar

If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.

— Mark Frauenfelder

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

— Michael Graves

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

— Douglas Adams

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

— Miguel Nicolelis

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.

— Charles Pollock

The world needs more social innovations.

— Anne Wojcicki

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

— Fran Lebowitz

Why is it we want one car to do everything?

— Franz von Holzhausen

✗Opposing Perspectives

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

— Arne Jacobsen