Embru’s Patio Chair Can Get a New Seat Without a New Frame
A wire-grid lounge chair sounds like a hard sell for an afternoon off. Yet Moritz Schmid’s Patio Chair for Swiss furniture maker Embru has a…
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This Printer-shaped Chair Has Receipts… Literally!
Somewhere along the way, the internet decided that “receipts” means proof. Screenshots of your ex’s texts are receipts. That old tweet a celebrity forgot to…
Old Chairs Get a Resin Shell Without Hiding Their Scars
Darkened wood, uneven color, and exposed fasteners are hardly the usual ingredients of a furniture makeover. In Younghyun Lee’s The Youth, they’re the reason to…
A Hidden Mechanism Turns the Scissor Chair Into a Lounger
Buying a chair for conversation and buying one for an evening with a book can feel like two separate furniture decisions. One asks you to…
Aery’s Office Chair Offers a Fit You Can Actually Fine-Tune
A desk setup can look perfect and still feel wrong by lunch. The monitor is aligned, the cables are hidden, and the chair matches the…
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,…
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…