IKEA Waited 12 Years to Show This Inflatable Chair at Milan Design Week
Air has always been free. IKEA designer Mikael Axelsson has been thinking about that fact for over a decade, sitting on an idea he first…
Furniture
This Chair Looks Normal Until It Needs to Keep You Afloat in a Flood
Flooding has gone from a rare calamity to a recurring reality for millions of households. As climate patterns grow more unpredictable, the spaces people call…
Elanco Made Dog-Shaped Furniture Because Your Sofa Has a Flea Problem
Pet ownership and interior design have always had an uneasy relationship. You pick out a sofa carefully, and within months, it’s covered in fur, scratch…
This Chair at Milan Design Week Looks Like a Forest Grew a Seat
The armchair has been one of the most contested territories in furniture design for over a century, from Alvar Aalto’s bent plywood experiments to Arne…
The Side Table That Holds One Book Right in Its Legs
Most furniture design is an exercise in addition. More drawers. More shelves. More compartments to fill with things we forget we own. It is refreshing,…
The 3D-Printed Chair That Moves With You, Not Against You
The first time I looked at the Flow Chair, I thought it was a sculpture. The sinuous, looping form bending into itself like a standing…
This Coffee Table Turns Into Abstract Sculpture by Loosening 2 Knobs
Furniture has always had a love-hate relationship with art. Some pieces are so carefully considered in form that they become objects of admiration, almost too…
The Ghost of Carlo Mollino’s Best Table Has Finally Arrived
Some designs don’t age. They just wait. The Vertebra table by Carlo Mollino has spent the last 75 years doing exactly that, existing in the…
Raw-Edges Just Designed a Chair That Needs Zero Fasteners
Upholstery has been done the same way for centuries. Foam gets glued, tacked, or stapled onto a frame, and that’s more or less the end…
The ZERO Chair Has No Welds, No Joints, No Apologies
Most chairs are built on compromise. You stack the legs, screw the seat, bolt the back, and somewhere in that assembly, a little bit of…
Rimowa Just Made the Classiest Excuse to Never Unpack
Most people treat their Rimowa suitcase like a very expensive houseguest: it arrives looking spectacular, gets shoved in a closet, and stays there until the…
Dozie Kanu Just Turned His Life Story Into Tables for Knoll
A table is just a table until it isn’t. That’s the kind of thinking that gets lost in a lot of design conversations, where we…