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…
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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…
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…
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…
The Plywood Chair That Becomes a Castle in 2 Moves
Plywood chairs are everywhere. You’ve seen them stacked in cafes, pulled up to dining tables, photographed on every other design account you follow. They’re functional,…