Tag: chair design

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 sit up; the other invites you to sink back. If your living room doesn’t have space for both, the Scissor Chair offers an appealing compromise. Produced by the German company…

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 Nor Casa’s folding chair, recently described as “flawed but Instagram-friendly,” is basically a case study in exactly that shift. The chair is striking. The kind of thing that stops your…

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 free and independent, yet still become the entire structural body of a chair? That question alone could have lived quietly in a sketchbook. Instead, it became the Stitch Chair, and…

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 GANG Studio turned that memory into a chair, and somehow it works completely. The Flip Chair, a 2026 artisanal project by designer Kikang Kim, takes its core concept directly from…

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 occasionally, a design is so fundamentally right that it earns the rare privilege of being revisited, and when that moment arrives, the update feels less like a revision and more…

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. That’s the full extent of the relationship most of us have with it, a transaction so unremarkable it barely registers. So when a designer decides to treat the chair as…

Most chairs are built on compromise. You stack the legs, screw the seat, bolt the back, and somewhere in that assembly, a little bit of the original idea gets lost to the necessity of structure. Davide Bozzo’s ZERO Chair refuses to play that game entirely. The concept is almost confrontationally simple: one single ribbon of…

If you follow design at all, you’ve probably seen hundreds of polished chair photos. The perfect angle, the right lighting, a finished product posed against a white backdrop or styled in a beautiful room. What you almost never see is what came before any of that. Not the sketches, not the CAD renders, but the…

The Anello chair by Kiritsu Mokko does not shout for attention. It sits quietly with a circular backrest that seems to float around a sculpted wooden seat, looking like a piece slightly out of time. Not in a dated way. More like it arrived from a place where three very different design traditions decided, once…

There’s something almost poetic about furniture that moves. Not in the literal sense, but in the way it invites you to play, rearrange, and reimagine your space. The Moon Series from Craft of Both and MADE does exactly that, and honestly, it’s one of the most captivating furniture concepts I’ve seen in a while. Picture…