Omnibite’s Screwless Joint Wants You to Build With Raw Branches
Most design projects start with the finished object. You picture a chair, sketch it out, source the materials, and figure out how to put it…
Furniture
GANG Studio’s Flip Chair Was Born From a Sheet of Korean Craft Paper
You know that double-sided colored paper, one side red, one side white, the kind you’d fold into cranes and fortune tellers as a kid? Seoul-based…
The Kneeling Chair From 1979 Finally Gets Its Color Moment
Most great design doesn’t need a second chance. It gets one take to impress you, and either you connect with it or you don’t. But…
Monai’s New Baby Crib Monitors Heart Rate With 4K Sensors
Baby gear has always been functional. Safe. Practical. But design, real design, has rarely been part of the conversation when it comes to infant furniture….
Thailand Just Turned Food Delivery Waste Into Actual Furniture
Most furniture with a sustainability story asks you to make a trade. You sacrifice the aesthetics for the ethics, and you call it a choice…
Gustaf Westman Gives Cat Furniture a Playful Upgrade
Cat trees are rarely the most beautiful objects in a home. They are often tall, scratchy, beige, awkwardly shaped, and treated as something to be…
A Student Designed Stools That Glow When Strangers Connect
I spend a lot of time in cities. Airports, subway stations, coffee shop benches, those weird little plazas that exist between office buildings where nobody…
How a Soccer Stance Solved One of Furniture’s Oldest Problems
If you’ve ever hosted a dinner party and counted chairs two hours before guests arrived, you know the panic. Do you have enough? Do you…
IKEA Just Built 18 World Cup Flags Out of Furniture
Every few years, the FIFA World Cup does what few things can: it makes the whole planet pay attention to the same thing at the…
How a Korean Dowry Chest Inspired a Smarter Modular Furniture System
Some of the most interesting design work starts not in a studio, but in a family home. For Korean designer Kim Gayoung, it started with…
Haworth Just Gave Its Most-Loved Office Chair a Softer Side
The original Hello lounge chair launched in 2002. Over two decades later, it’s back, and Patricia Urquiola has had her way with it. The result…
Mo & A Turned a Mitsubishi Taillight Into a Night Stand
Most furniture draws its inspiration from architecture, nature, or the clean geometric vocabulary of modernist design. Occasionally, a designer looks at the back of a…