{"id":728194,"date":"2026-05-19T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:55:14","slug":"a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407f2bd90db\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407f2bd90db\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/#SHARE\" >SHARE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" style=\"max-width:1050px;\">\n                        <input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625607\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The first thing you notice about Massimiliano Malag\u00f2\u2019s chairs is that the bottom half looks like it\u2019s giving up. The ceramic bases <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to be softening, pooling, their surfaces undulating in slow waves as if the weight of everything sitting on top has finally gotten to them. The upper halves, either blond plywood cut with clean geometric precision or yellow foam dense as old mattress padding, hold their shape with complete indifference. The contrast is the whole conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Malag\u00f2 is an Italian architect based in New York who teaches at Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Architecture and runs the practice HHMM with set designer Helene Helleu. His body of work has a recurring habit of using furniture as intellectual argument, treating each piece as a spatial essay. These chairs, created as part of On the Calculation of Volume for a Greenpoint apartment renovation he developed alongside client Kathleen Pongrace, are his most layered statement yet. Literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>Designer: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/massimilianomariamalago\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Massimiliano Malag\u00f2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625608\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625608\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"287f923bfdbf8f933c5a89d7-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ad-1 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"287f923bfdbf8f933c5a89d7-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Each chair is essentially two objects in a standoff. The bases are hand-sculpted ceramic glazed in a crackled off-white, decorated with small blue motifs that range from heraldic figures and crests to lunar phase calendars marked with numbers from one to thirty. Depending on which chair you\u2019re looking at, the surface texture shifts too. Some bases have a wavy, rippled undulation. Others are pocked with circular voids, perforations from which actual small flowers grow, as if nature has decided to quietly move in through whatever gaps the city left open.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625609\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625609\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-09.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625610\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625610\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-010.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"287f923bfdbf8f933c5a89d7-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ads-2 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"287f923bfdbf8f933c5a89d7-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The upper chair structures sit on top of these organic, softened bases like they arrived from a different address entirely. The plywood versions are laminated and layered, their cut edges revealing the strata of material inside like a cross-section of something ancient, while the foam versions have a raw, utilitarian quality that reads somewhere between construction material and domestic comfort. Both feel deliberately unfinished in a way that is not careless but considered. Malag\u00f2 is clearly not interested in making the perfect chair. He is interested in making a chair that has something to say about what living in New York actually costs you, in time, in money, and in compromises.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625611\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625611\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The storage element is where it gets genuinely clever. Pull open a drawer concealed within the ceramic base and you find a sliding metal mechanism holding books. The idea that a chair can house your library inside its own body, that seating and storage are so compressed in a small New York apartment that they must physically merge, is either a practical solution or a quiet diagnosis of how little room the city actually allows. I\u2019d argue it\u2019s both.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625612\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625612\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625613\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625613\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The lunar calendars printed across the ceramic surfaces in blue add another layer. Numbers arranged around moon phases suggest cycles, passing time, the rhythm of days that accumulate in a place where rent comes due whether you\u2019re thriving or barely holding on. These aren\u2019t decorative flourishes. They\u2019re documentation. Malag\u00f2 treats the surfaces of these chairs the way someone might treat the margins of a notebook, filling them with information that only makes full sense once you step back and read the whole thing together.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625614\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625614\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The material pairings are where the real honesty lives. Ceramic is permanent, archival, the kind of material you associate with objects meant to outlast the people who made them. Foam and plywood are impermanent, budget-conscious, the materials of first apartments and temporary solutions. Putting them together isn\u2019t a design provocation for its own sake. It\u2019s a portrait of how most people actually live, reaching for something lasting while working with whatever is available. The chair holds that tension without resolving it, which feels exactly right.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625615\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625615\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625616\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-625616\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/banaca-011.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Design that tries to tell you something about city life usually does so at a comfortable, critical distance. These chairs plant themselves in the middle of it. They sit in a real apartment, used by a real person, and they carry the full weight of that reality in every surface.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/calculation-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625617\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/05\/18\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/calculation-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/05\/a-chair-with-a-drawer-a-calendar-and-a-point-of-view\/calculation-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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