lifelines collection merges painted abstract landscapes with furniture design

Abstract painting covers Kirsi Enkovaara’s Lifelines collection

The Lifelines furniture collection by Kirsi Enkovaara translates painted mental landscapes into a series of objects and artworks arranged in a deliberately fragmented sequence. The collection includes The Lifeline Chair alongside a selection of deconstructed paintings.

The chair is conceived as an interactive piece. Its structure allows the paintings to function like turning pages in a book, enabling users to alter the visible composition and create new visual arrangements. This adaptability introduces a variable spatial experience, where the scenery shifts according to each adjustment.

all images by Iiro Tujula, courtesy of Kirsi Enkovaara

chair transforms into an interactive painted composition

The starting point for the collection was the disassembly of the designer’s own paintings. Reconfigured into new orders, these works explore the notion of life not as a seamless continuum, but as a composition of separate moments and emotions. Together, the chair and paintings present a study of fragmented yet interconnected experiences, expressed through both object and image.

furniture and art merge in fragmented compositions

a collection translating mental landscapes into form

the Lifeline Chair alongside deconstructed paintings

the chair as an interactive object

each adjustment creates a new scenery

painted surfaces reimagined as movable fragments

works reconfigured into deliberately new orders

paintings function like turning pages in a book

object and image converge in the collection

personal narratives expressed through shifting compositions

the collection highlights the interplay of memory and form

project info:

name: The Lifelines collection
designer: Kirsi Enkovaara | @kirsienkovaara

photographer: Iiro Tujula | @iirotujula

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edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom