This Convertible Bench Lets You Choose Between Company and Privacy
Cities are designed around togetherness. Parks, campuses, transit hubs, waiting areas, and public plazas usually assume that people want to sit near one another, talk,…
Chair
This VR System Gets Bigger So It Doesn’t Have to Touch Your Face
Virtual reality often asks you to strap a screen to your face before you can go anywhere. That can get uncomfortable when a short demonstration…
Flat-Pack Furniture That Actually Survives Your Next Move
Flat-pack furniture is easy to appreciate on the day it arrives. It fits through the door, and you can usually put it together without much…
A 1908 New York building’s discarded fragments got turned into furniture instead of being demolished
A renovation across the street from Rafael Prieto’s studio offered an unusually good view of his next project. As decorative pieces came off the facade…
Sheet Metal Furniture That Actually Survives Your Next Move
Anyone who has hauled a flat-pack bookshelf up three flights of stairs knows the routine. You unbox forty identical-looking parts, squint at a wordless instruction…
Thin Acrylic Folds Like Origami to Give This Chair Its Inflated, Sculptural Form
A folding chair is usually designed around one simple promise: disappear when it is not needed. This concept takes that familiar piece of furniture…
The 8kg Spider Chair That Refuses to Wobble on Any Floor
I have spent enough time in enough apartments with enough uneven floors to know that four legs are a promise most chairs cannot keep. Old…
Yinka Ilori Finally Told the Story of Chairs Nobody Wanted
Every neighborhood has that curb. The one where a slightly wobbly dining chair or a stained armchair shows up on trash day, waiting for someone…
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…
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…
Chrome Spheres Are Now Furniture, and It’s Surprisingly Beautiful
The easiest way to describe the Wishes Collection is to say it looks like someone took a string of chrome Christmas ornaments and turned them…
The Modular Chair That Lets You Swap Parts Like a Building
Most furniture asks one question at the point of purchase: do you like it enough to live with it, possibly forever? Junha Kahm’s Facade modular…
These Contemporary Chairs Turn Sustainability and Stillness Into Design
A chair can be a surprisingly effective storytelling device. Give it a different material, soften a familiar silhouette, or borrow a gesture from somewhere unexpected,…
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 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…
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…