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…
Chair
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,…
The Folding Chair That Looks Great and Sits Terribly
At some point in our collective design consciousness, we collectively decided that a chair could be aspirational. Not just functional. Not just well-made. Aspirational. And…
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…
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…