The Folding Chair That Looks Great and Sits Terribly

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 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…

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How Pasta Became Interior Design’s Most Playful Muse

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 Artistic Tile has now become part of a broader design movement that treats pasta as form, memory, geometry, and material inspiration. In April, Artistic Tile posted its newest “product line”…

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