After visiting the Museum Park, Paul Cocksedge Studio designed a site-specific version of his earlier Please Be Seated projects for the NCMA Raleigh.

Following the changing topography of the landscape, the undulating bench forms two sweeping arcs that flow down the hill, providing a physical and visual link between the upper areas of the Museum Park and the Museum buildings and Bryan Theater.

Designed as a series of rings, with rippling waves of arches that created spaces for people to pass through or sit and relax, the original Please Be Seated was a temporary installation made from recycled scaffolding boards located in downtown London during the London Design Festival in 2019.

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Following its debut in London, the temporary version of Please Be Seated traveled to several cities in China, including Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing.

Another temporary version of the project was created for Kew Gardens in London in 2021. There are now two permanent editions of the work, one in Hong Kong (2021) and one in Beijing (2022).