A Step Stool That Actually Belongs in Your Entryway
Tying your shoes in the entryway shouldn’t feel like a balance test, but it usually does. You hop on one foot, grip the doorframe or…
Furniture
The Drawer That Actually Becomes 5 Portable Trays
Most storage furniture in an American home falls into one of two categories: too heavy to move without hurting yourself, or too flimsy to trust…
5 Steel Furniture Designs That Look Nothing Like Steel Furniture
For years, steel furniture carried a predictable identity, purely functional and unapologetically utilitarian. It belonged to offices, factories, and workshops, valued more for endurance than…
Rope Replaced Every Screw and Dowel in This $77 Wooden Folding Stool
Most furniture relies on hardware you can’t see to hold everything together. Screws, bolts, dowels, and adhesives do the invisible work that keeps chairs and…
The Cat Scratcher That Looks Like Real Furniture
Pet furniture has always occupied that slightly awkward middle ground between function and forgettable. You buy it because you have to, shove it in a…
IKEA and Xbox’s YXSTABY furniture collection makes gaming feel more at home
Gaming furniture often announces its purpose a little too loudly with oversized chairs and brightly colored accents. This can make a living room feel more…
The Aluminium Chair With No Cushion, No Frame, No Apologies
Most furniture design tells a story in layers. A frame, a cushion, an upholstery, a finish. By the time you sit down, you’re resting on…
This Award-Winning Armchair Proves One Bold Detail Changes Everything
Pepê Lima’s Jacob armchair doesn’t ease itself into a room — it arrives. Designed for Indonesian furniture brand Blackwood, the chair took home three accolades…
The Coat Rack That Doubles as a Sculpture for Your Entryway
Most coat racks have one job and barely manage it. They accumulate coats, yes, but also that one bag you keep meaning to put away,…
An Industrial Designer Hid the Chair’s Entire Folding Mechanism Inside the Backrest
Gudmundur Ludvik had a question he couldn’t let go of. Why should a folding chair be a compromise? The answer, for decades, had been accepted…
The Navy Chair That Refused to Be Replaced
The Emeco Navy Officer Swivel Chair walked into the present carrying about 75 years of history on its brushed aluminum frame. That kind of backstory…
Someone Built a $3,500 Studio That Starts With You, Not the Gear
The studio setup has always been a deeply personal thing. Two producers with identical gear can arrange it in completely different ways, because the physical…