Recognised as one of the most innovative and exciting designers of his generation, Waldemeyer, was born in East Germany. He moved to London in 1995 where he trained as an engineer at Kings College. Since then, he has collaborated with many of the world’s top architects and fashion designers including Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Hussein Chalayan. His work is a fusion of technology, art, fashion and design.

The inspiration for By Royal Appointment came from his work with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, for whom he constructed dresses of shimmering LED light displays. This new series of chairs responds to the sitter’s clothing, changing the atmosphere and space around it. A sensor in the back of the chair reads the colour of the clothing and projects it on to the surface behind using LED lighting. This gives the individual sitting on it their own halo of light, or personal aura, evoking images of religious icons and kings.

The shape of the chairs evoke the design of medieval thrones. The holes in the back of the chair gradually increase in size, making the chair at once solid yet insubstantial, as though it might be dissolving into the air. Strange and surreal, witty yet also spiritual, this is one of Waldemeyer’s most arresting projects to date.