Japanese Designer Built Furniture With No Glue or Screws

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 craft of traditional joinery is genuinely impressive, and furniture historians will rightly tell you it’s one of the oldest engineering feats in human history. But a Japanese designer named Tact…

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Forget Upholstery: Lærke Ryom Tailors Furniture Instead

Forget Upholstery: Lærke Ryom Tailors Furniture Instead

Most upholstered furniture is essentially furniture under stress. Fabric gets stretched, stapled, pulled taut, and forced into submission over rigid frames. It is, fundamentally, a question of control. Danish designer Lærke Ryom looked at that process and decided to do the opposite. Her debut solo exhibition, Raiments, now open at Innenkreis gallery in central Copenhagen,…

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The Case for Heirloom Furniture in an Era Obsessed With Biodegradable Everything

The Case for Heirloom Furniture in an Era Obsessed With Biodegradable Everything

Joe Doucet has always been good at saying uncomfortable things politely. His latest provocation, delivered via Columns, a furniture collection with Bulgarian studio Oublier, is that the design industry’s obsession with biodegradable materials might be missing the point entirely. Furniture made from mycelium or algae can decompose in five years, sure, but a well-made antique…

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