From historical studies, many of us concur that chairs are actually one of the oldest furniture items used by human civilization. As a matter of fact, for centuries chairs were revered for their allusion to stateliness and authority. Of course, in our present era, chairs have become far too common, …
History aficionados, Egyptologists and men with overabundance of greenbacks, the pictured ‘Golden Throne’ is actually a replica of one of King Tut’s six treasures found in his tomb. The chair in fact represents one of the ‘evolutionary’ versions of the furniture, which had been used for royal purposes since Egypt’s …
In our modern urban settings of cramped spaces and smaller housing units, the ‘reclusive’ scope of a semi-private space is very essential for individualistic living. The ‘Quiet’ chair by London-based design studio TILT fulfills this crucial spatial need, by treading the fine line between a personal space and a communal space. Envisioned as …
What is better than munching away at your pizza while snugly sitting on your living room sofa? Well, according to us, it is munching away at a pizza while snugly sitting on a larger pizza! And, that is exactly what you can do with the remarkably weird yet delightful ‘Pizza Junior inflatable …
Many of the city dwelling Hungarians still live in medium-sized apartments, a legacy of the country’s Communist era from the mid-to-late 20th century. An interior effect of such relatively spacious apartments is that the kitchen and dining space are generally fused together to endow a more ‘collective’ space for both …
The contemporary trend of armchair designs do conform to a variety of forms ranging from the ‘avant garde’ to the cute. Following on the heels of such innovative design considerations, we have the ‘Panda’ armchair by Matti Klenell (for Källemo) that affably combines both novelty and cuteness. In this regard, the very …
Reclaimed wood seems to be the new ‘go to’ resource for inventive furniture designs. In this regard, we have come across a collective project of different furniture items all made from recycled casks. Named unpretentiously as the ‘Progetto Barrique‘ (New Life for Wooden Barrels), the project was a conscientious endeavor …
This is not the first time we have come across a ‘bed cum seating mechanism‘ conception. However, the pictured ‘Collar’ chair-bed from Ire Möbel(designed by Jesper Ståhl) does stand out from other comparable products by its simplistic essence of modernism. The chair bed is upholstered in a gray fabric cover …
A furniture aficionado worth his/her salt might tell you that the original Italian ‘Spaghetti Chair’ constructed from painted steel and seat wire PVC made it’s commercial splash back in 1980. But in the strictest sense of the phrase, this classy furniture piece was not the literal design translation of the …
Designer Leonardo Talarico has come up with first ever TOFU chair which is made from soy bean curd. To make a sturdy seat Talarico dehydrated the tofu blocks and further submitted those tofu blocks to a dose of thermal shock to make a chair that is suitable to vegetarians. Designer …
