4 Ancient Japanese Crafts Reborn as Furniture You Can Actually Own
Japan has always had a complicated relationship with the new. On one hand, the country gave us bullet trains, robot hotels, and vending machines that…
Furniture
The No-Drill Plywood Shelf System Every Renter Has Been Waiting For
Most shelves come with a decision baked into their design: find a wall, drill some holes, and commit to a location that will outlast most…
This Cork Cactus Looks Like Decor and Acts Like 3 Pieces of Furniture
Coat stands have always occupied an awkward position in a room. They’re functional enough to keep around but rarely considered anything beyond a place to…
Furniture Made From Wood Scraps You’d Actually Pay For
Every furniture workshop generates a particular kind of guilt. There are the offcuts, the trimmings, the odd-shaped remainders of boards that got cut to size…
Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair
Luxury furniture has long borrowed the language of high-performance design without much of the substance behind it. Carbon fiber panels get applied as surface decoration,…
Yves Béhar’s Modular Sofa Seats 12 And Can Shapeshift Endlessly
Every designer had a pandemic project. Most people learned sourdough. Yves Béhar built a sofa made of foam triangles so his family would stop scattering…
The Sofa That Deploys Itself Uses the Same Wire as Heart Stents
Most of us have a complicated relationship with flat-pack furniture. The promise is always elegant: a flat box arrives at your door, you follow a…
A Portable Cork Brainstorming Stool For Literal Lightbulb Moments
Productive brainstorming rarely stays in one room. Teams move between floors, commandeer empty meeting rooms, or pull chairs into an open corner when a whiteboard…
The Echo Chair Makes 3D Printing Feel Refined
ZHA has collaborated with Spanish design brand Nagami to create the Echo Chair, a 3D-printed seat made from recycled plastic waste. Formerly known as Zaha…
The Sculptural Rocking Chair That Started as a Single Idea
Most furniture design starts with a question: How do people sit? Aleks Forystek Studio started with a completely different one. What happens when a heavy…
This Steel Side Table Has 6 Functions and Zero Extra Parts
Living with limited floor space has always required some level of compromise, and furniture is usually where that compromise shows most. Side tables, in particular,…
This PlayStation Controller Sofa Was Built for Co-Op Gaming Marathons
Sofas and game controllers are a match made in heaven. Nothing quite screams ‘relaxing gaming sesh’ like a vacant controller lying on an empty sofa,…
Ergonomic chairs rarely account for taller, broader users. LiberNovo built one, and it’s on discount for a week
Ergonomic chairs may finally be having their XL moment. For years, the category has obsessed over lumbar dials, mesh backs, and posture-perfect adjustability, while a…
Japanese Designer Built Furniture With No Glue or Screws
Most furniture is held together by things you can’t see. Mortise-and-tenon joints, steel brackets, wood glue applied in generous amounts before being clamped overnight. The…
Half Pixel, Half Mirror: The Ghost Collection That Blurs Both Worlds
If you’ve ever looked at an old video game screenshot next to a 4K render and felt strangely moved by both, Alberto Essesi’s Ghost Collection…
The $9,000 Lounge Chair That Spent 20 Years Becoming a Workspace
Lounge seating hasn’t changed much in the past half century. The category has largely coasted on the same formula: a cushioned shell, a recline mechanism,…