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Matthew Hilton is one of the UK’s leading furniture designers. Formerly Head of Furniture Design for Habitat, he runs his own studio designing and producing furniture.
Location: Main Waiting Areas
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Waiting Area Seating
Matthew was invited to design a special range of seating for the five main waiting areas: Outpatients, Therapy, Mental Health, A&E and Radiology. In discussions with hospital staff and patients, there was a desire to dispense with waiting chairs set in lines and grids in favour of a less institutional form of seating. Made up of three different but complementary shapes, each unit can stand alone, or be arranged in a variety of ways: along the edges of spaces, as a central island or a ‘snake’ of many seats. After much discussion, the initial range of colours was reduced to a striking navy and red with contrasting stitching. Each seat is large enough for a child and adult to sit together, or for two children to sit side by side on one unit.
I wanted to create a fluid seating area that would invite patients and visitors to interact socially and feel relaxed without being overtly child like. Working to a tough design brief was challenging and focused my design on the creation of one type of building block that could just as easily be applied to an intimate area as well as on open plan space.
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