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Just in case you’ve always wondered what it would feel like to sit in a crumpled ball of alumnium foil, Tokujin Yoshioka has got you covered. His avant garde chair sequence, dubbed “Memory,” will be featured in April’s upcoming Milan Design Week.

The chair is fashioned from a special fabric of recycled aluminum, which forms to your shape when you sit in it, and then of course stays that way—memorizing the seat’s occupant. Initially, the chair is relatively smooth, flat and unremarkable—but it’s transformation into a crinkled, glistening mass is an ingenious way of making something intangible seem to grow. Yoshioka is no stranger to inventive design concepts, modern aesthetic and muted pallets: his past work has afforded him clients like Issey Miyake and BMW. This piece represents a new frontier in furniture conception, however. A chair that mirrors its owner—how’s that for narcissism?