- The extrusion at right angles to the cross-section, combined with an identical width for each 'slice' invokes associations of yacht-interiors at best and mass-manufacture at worst.

- A wide variety of radii wants you to sit down here, crouch into a hollow, stretch out over the saddle over there, hook your knees into that ridge, curl up in here. Spending half an hour searching for comfortable locations forces you to accept that what looks invitingly comfortable is not necessarily so. Personally I found only a couple of comfortable sitting positions, one good place for reading a book and a tricky one which should do for reading the newspaper. There is only limited floor-surface for lying down, with a couple of places that work well for putting your feet up. As the environment was part of a public exhibition, testing its suitability for sex was not appropriate.

- Let's be honest: whilst it didn't provide an abundance of comfortable spots for snuggling up, the same square meters of traditional living room outfit would probably provide even less potential resting sites for the tired body.

- It was dark in there and the psychedelic colour range of the stretch-fabric clearly identifies the time when it was designed - it is, however, not too difficult to imagine it in camel-beige leather with orange trim for the eighties, the pastel colour range of the early nineties, or the serious navy, black and silver of the corporate age.