A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View
The first thing you notice about Massimiliano Malagò’s chairs is that the bottom half looks like it’s giving up. The ceramic bases appear to be…
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VIBRYX Is the Furniture Collection That Treats Sound as a Material
I’ve looked at a lot of furniture collections over the years. Most of them ask the same question: how do you make a sofa or…
70 Years Later, Midcentury Modern Furniture Has Still Outlasted Every Single Trend That Came After It
Seventy years on, Midcentury Modern still holds the room. Few design languages have remained so instantly legible across generations, continents, and price brackets. A teak…
This Table Lets Four Woods Melt Into One Beautiful Gradient
The Color Gradient Table is a piece that understands something very simple, but often overlooked: wood already has color. It does not need to be…
PLANK Made a Folding Chair You’d Never Want to Put Away
Folding chairs have a reputation problem. For most of us, they conjure up images of bare banquet halls, plastic legs scraping across gymnasium floors, or…
What Happens When You Let 90 Kids Design a Birdhouse
Most of us have a pretty fixed idea of what a birdhouse looks like. A small wooden box, a round hole, maybe a little perch….
Art Deco Furniture Is Back – and Salone 2026 Made It Official
After years dominated by pale oak, soft minimalism, and rounded silhouettes, Salone del Mobile 2026 signaled a clear shift toward richer and more expressive interiors….
Why Does Every Kids Chair Feel Disposable? ROCCO Disagrees
Kids furniture has a peculiar habit of lying about its usefulness. You buy it, your child loves it for roughly eight months, and then it…
NjommNjomm Is Exactly What It Sounds Like (It Eats Books)
Say the name out loud. NjommNjomm. Go ahead. It sounds exactly like what you think it sounds like. Nom nom. Like something chewing. Like something…
Oil Pipes That People Actually Want To Sit On And Socialize
Norway is a nation shaped by oil. Its wealth, its global standing, and much of its infrastructure are rooted in extraction. But what is striking…
Deniz Aktay Just Built a Side Table from a Single Tube Bent Twice
Side tables have a bit of an identity problem in furniture design. Most treat them as purely functional afterthoughts, giving you a flat surface at…
Konstantin Grcic Just Turned Scaffolding Poles Into Public Seating for €98
Temporary seating at public events, pop-ups, and outdoor markets rarely gets much design attention. Most options are folding chairs that feel flimsy, plastic stackers that…