Stories
Building Instructions
For Design Reviewed #2, Takt’s flat-pack furniture, designed to be perpetually repaired, is put to the test by a self-confessed fan of building manuals.
Clamping Down on Furniture Waste
Harnessing a love of the humble clamp, Isabel Alonso’s furniture collection Defocus makes a case for high-quality, flat-pack furniture.
Chairing the Woman’s Role
Ella Bulley shapes new narratives about women’s roles and the representation of their bodies through a family of three wooden chairs.
Best Foot Forward
How a shared home, four creatives feeling stifled in lockdown, and a Portuguese master crucifix carver resulted in the playful Foot Stool by Protect 213A.
Design Line: 3 – 9 June
This week’s Design Line takes stock of Apple’s goggle-like AR headset the Vision Pro, a pink paint shortage caused by the Barbie movie, and a sofa designed by AI.
Fidget Exercise
Studiomama’s Kyora Board for Cotto strikes a balance between sculptural object and home exercise equipment.
Furnitureheads
As Vitra releases just 150 of Jean Prouvé’s Fauteuil Kangourou chair in a streetwear-style drop, Elizabeth Glickfeld charts how furniture design caught FOMO.
A Neotenic State of Mind
From Disegno #22, Justin Donnelly unpacks the science behind super-cute furniture that makes your subconscious squee.
Learning from Failure
Designer Ineke Hans shares what she learnt from the second life of her recycled plastic chair Rex in Learning from Failure.
Essential Forms
How some downtime watching Netflix provided the moment of inspiration for Julien Renault to design the Pastis chair and table for Hay.
The Everywhere Chair
From Autun to Foshun, Brendan Cormier traces a century of manufacturing Xavier Pauchard’s ubiquitous Tolix Chaise A.
It Hides a Mess!
Evi Hall reflects on Cabine, Inga Sempé’s standing mirror for Ariake that’s produced on different continents for a more resilient supply chain.
Bend it Like Morrison
From logo to lounge chair, Magnus Englund charts the creation of Jasper Morrison’s single-piece plywood furniture through the history of Isokon Plus.
An Experiment in Sitting
From Disegno #11, dancer Adrien Dantou gets comfortable in Hieronymous, designer Konstantin Grcic’s series of experimental seating structures.
A Super Normal Stool
Naoto Fukasawa’s Za stool imports the designer’s notion of the Super Normal into Emeco’s collection of aluminium seating.
In the Boudoir with Bethan Laura Wood
Designer Bethan Laura Wood takes Disegno into her imaginary boudoir ahead of her solo gallery show Ornate at Nilufar in Milan.
The Sum of All Constraints
The Bell chair sees Konstantin Grcic reflect on the importance of clear information and rigid constraints to the design process.