This Concept Organizes the First 30 Seconds of Coming Home in the Rain
Home entryway products have a coverage problem. A shoe rack deals with footwear, but not the umbrella. An umbrella stand handles the wet item but…
Furniture
A Folding Chair Designed to Stay Out, Not Hide Away
I have a complicated relationship with folding chairs. Not a hostile one, just complicated. They are one of those objects that exist in a permanent…
Muuto’s Minimalist Chair Hides A Tiny Heart In Its Details
There are few symbols more familiar than the heart. It appears everywhere, from children’s drawings to luxury branding, which is perhaps why designers rarely touch…
An Office Wall That Moves, Opens, and Looks Like Art
The first thing you notice about FLIP is the texture. The BRICKS panels that make up the surface are three-dimensional, each unit raised and grooved…
LiberNovo Maxis Gives Bigger Builds the Chair They Actually Deserve
The ergonomic chair market has grown considerably over the past decade, with brands competing on lumbar support, adjustability, and build quality. For most people, the…
Herman Miller’s Aeron Just Broke Its Decades-Long Neutrals-Only Rule
Office chairs have largely operated on a color vocabulary of one. Black. Occasionally dark gray. The reasoning is defensible enough: a chair meant to work…
Japanese Designer Just Built a Real Shelf From Rolled Paper Sheets
When Japanese designer Muto Yumi set out to make furniture from paper, the result was not what most people would imagine. No papier-mâché. No origami-inspired…
How One Loop of Bent Wood Became a Complete Chair
Every so often, a piece of furniture stops you the way a good sentence does. You read it once, then go back and read it…
Forget the Spare Room. The Box Is Here Now.
The spare room is a luxury. Most of us know this, even if we pretend otherwise. We squeeze guests onto pull-out sofas, loan them our…
The Stool Made From 100% Recycled Plastic That Looks Like Art
If you’ve ever tossed a plastic bottle cap into the recycling bin and wondered where it actually ends up, the Bit Stool might be the…
Ovios and Studio F. A. Porsche Just Made Their First Furniture Collection Together
Ovios introduced Aero Evo at the launch event in California, a new outdoor furniture collection created with Studio F. A. Porsche. The line includes a…
Pompom Stool Made From Recycled Aluminum Is Green Design Done Right
Sustainable design has a branding problem. Not an ethics problem, not a materials problem, but a branding problem. For years, the conversation around circular materials…