GROWING up in Colombia, Jaime Salm loved to swing from the trees. “We’d go to our friend’s farm on weekends — he had a huge hammock that five of us would pile into — and others would try to push it hard enough that it would loop over the branch,” said Mr. Salm, 32, an owner and the creative director of Mio, a Philadelphia design firm specializing in sustainable furnishings.

When Mr. Salm left home to study at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, his mother gave him a fishnet-style hammock to take with him. “It packed super-light,” he said. “But because it was made of string, it wasn’t very comfortable.”

Eventually, his brother Isaac, who owns Mio with him, brought a more comfortable, cotton hammock from Colombia. Mr. Salm can be spotted using it in Rittenhouse Square and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. On occasion, he takes it to New York City, where he hangs it in Central Park.

The idea of harnessing available free energy — in this case, wind or the power of one’s leg — is very much in keeping with Mr. Salm’s philosophy of design and life. He doesn’t own a car, choosing to ride his bike around Philadelphia. Last year, he made sure to include a hammock in a capsule collection he designed for Target. And the pieces he creates for his company are often made of materials that are recycled or recyclable — or both — with an eye to environmental and social responsibility.

On a recent trip to Manhattan, Mr. Salm went shopping for hanging seating, both horizontal and vertical. While he prefers hammocks, he acknowledged the appeal of the hanging chair.

“In a chair, you’re expected to sit a certain way, to have a certain posture,” he said. “But in a hanging chair, you can sit whichever way you want. It’s more playful.”

At the M2L showroom on Madison Avenue, he took a swing in Eero Aarnio’s classic Bubble Chair. “I can see why it’s stuck around for so long,” he said. “It’s a clean-looking, simple, durable design. It gives the illusion of floating in a space, and it’s very comfortable.”

Downtown, at Droog, Mr. Salm checked out Marcel Wanders’s Swing With the Plants, a plastic chair with a hollow seat that can be filled with soil and seeds with the goal of eventually sprouting plant life, which he thought would be “good for people who are more romantic about the idea of swinging.”

But at the Anthropologie store in Chelsea Market, he found what he prefers — traditional hammocks — in two colorful options.

“You get a different perspective of the world lying in a hammock,” he said. “It’s a piece of furniture that makes you change the way you look at your surroundings. How many other pieces of furniture do you know that do that?”

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