In the decade of the 1990s, chair designers experimented with form and material, resulting in a number of bizarre chair shapes. Conceivably the 20th century’s worst decade for truly notable chair designs (with several exceptions), the 1990s perhaps suffered from some end of century sense of superiority. In truth, it was the decade of overly inflated pop culture: The Spice Girls, Beverly Hills 90210 and Friends anyone" As a result, design was too impacted by an exaggerated sense of self.W.W. StoolDesigned by Philippe Starck in 1990 for Vitra, the W.W. stool is named after German film-maker Wim Wenders. Entirely surrealist in form, this particular ‘seat’ is more akin to a stool’s alternative definition, that being the root of a tree or plant from which shoots sprout. The W.W. stool is quite alien as a concept: an imaginative Starck creation, it is both beautiful and unsightly at the same time.RELATED: 9 Iconic Chair Designs From The 1980sPhilippe Starck’s W.W. Stool. Image © 2016 Midmod-Design.Frank Gehry’s Cross Check? chair....