A Stool, a Bookstand, and a Small Monument to Stillness
Guided by geometry, symmetry, and a quiet reverence for material, the Bookchair by Cass Saldanha sits somewhere between furniture, object, and architectural study. At first…
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When Tokyo’s Fallen Branches Become Furniture You Can’t Ignore
I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking at furniture that claims to be inspired by nature. Most of it amounts to a curved line…
The Chair That Came From a Single Obsessive Question
Most chair designs start with ergonomics, or materials, or a client brief. Emad Lajevardi started with a question. What if a single line could remain…
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…
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…
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…
How Pasta Became Interior Design’s Most Playful Muse
There is something wonderfully unserious, and yet oddly elegant, about pasta-inspired decor. What began as an April Fools’ joke by luxury stone and tile company…
A Designer Just Turned His Memories Into Chairs You Can Sit In
The chair is probably the most taken-for-granted object in any room. You pull one out, you sit, you get up and push it back in….
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…
The Lounge Chair That Has No Welds, No Joints, and No Legs – Just One Bent Sheet of Metal
Sheet metal has been a furniture material for decades, but it almost always gets hidden. It becomes the internal skeleton, the underframe, the bracket buried…
This Chair Turns Fragmented Structure Into Ergonomic Support
Aerise is a seating concept that reimagines how structure, support, and movement can coexist within furniture design. Seating has long followed rigid forms and familiar…