These Steel Chairs Are Too Big to Sit In: Walk Through Them Instead
Most public art earns its place on a pedestal and stays there. It asks you to look, maybe photograph it, and walk away. The relationship…
Furniture
A Stool With Six Legs Just Made Four Feel Outdated
The humble stool has barely changed in centuries. Four legs, a flat seat, done. It exists in every cafe, classroom, kitchen island, and co-working space…
This Lounge Chair’s Shape Is Precisely Why Two of Them Make a Sofa
Modular seating tends to be either complicated or a compromise. The sectional sofa has never really solved the fundamental problem that living situations change, people…
This Side Table Has No Legs: Its Two Storage Units Are the Structure
Side tables rarely demand much attention. They hold a drink, a lamp, or a book, and that’s essentially all anyone expects from them. The more…
The Anello Chair Is 3 Design Eras in One Piece of Wood
The Anello chair by Kiritsu Mokko does not shout for attention. It sits quietly with a circular backrest that seems to float around a sculpted…
This Lounge Chair Was Designed to Never Be Replaced — Indoors or Out
The best furniture doesn’t freeze time. It moves with you. That’s the quiet logic behind the LISBOA Lounge Chair, designed by Keiji Takeuchi for MOR…
Screw-inspired Stool Numbered Like a Sneaker Drop: Only 150 Made
There’s a certain kind of object that can’t quite decide what it is, and not in a bad way. Furniture has increasingly strayed into collectible…
The 2-Person Rocking Bench Made From 55kg of Plastic Waste
Most furniture tells you exactly what to do with it. A chair says sit. A table says set things down. A bench says sit, maybe…
One Week Design’s Squares Furniture Is Built on a Bricklayer’s Memory
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what separates furniture that you simply own from furniture that you actually feel something about. Most pieces fall…
When Your Sideboard Swallows Your Books (On Purpose)
Most furniture does exactly what it promises. A shelf holds things. A table provides surface. A sideboard stores what you don’t want to look at….
The Sideboard That Started as Lines That Never Finished
Most great furniture doesn’t start with a grand vision. It starts with a sketch, usually a messy one, the kind you draw absentmindedly while thinking…
The Side Table That Folds a Bookshelf Into Its Own Top
Most side tables ask very little of you. You set things on them, they hold those things, and that’s the end of the conversation. The…