18 Oct
Only 33 handmade chairs from the pen of Simone Legno

Tokidoki’s Simone Legno, who was the subject of a LIAS feature last year, lends his highly illustrative style to this very limited edition wingchair dubbed the Singapore. Only 33 of the pieces will be made, built to order in the UK, of kiln-dried hardwood birch with a beech frame and legs and faux-suede upholstery covered […]


3 Oct
Modular Seating system by Studio Lawrence

While we’ve invited you to sit your ass down on a Space Invader, a Giant Rubiks Cube, a Twizzler and some Hay, perhaps it’s time to consider a Tetris-like seating arrangement for your derriere. Studio Lawrence‘s “To Gather” seating arrangements by designers Patrick de Louwere and Bart Eijking, premiered at the London Design Festival, are engineered […]


14 Sep
Viennese designer Philipp Aduatz's brown barrel friendly furniture

I don’t know exactly how comfortable Philipp Aduatz‘s Melting Chair would be to sit on, but I know in college it would’ve scared the hell outta some of my more hardcore Phish-listening friends. Things were always melting for them anyways, so lord knows how this chair would’ve affected their fragile psyches. The Viennese futurist designer crafted […]


7 Sep
Polish designer Bashko Trybek's glute muscle relaxer

You know those anti-stress balls you squeeze in your fist to ease the frustration of life’s many unexpected obstacles? Polish designer Bashko Trybek has created a metal wire frame chair which you load up with said balls, allowing you to squeeze away the frustation via your soon-to-be-massive glute muscles. There are 5 colors of balls […]


12 Aug
Stray Bullet Chair, aka "Survivor Chair", by Design da Gema

Inspired by a shooting at a carioca bar in Rio de Janeiro, Design da Gema, a Brazilian design studio, has produced the Stray Bullet Chair (also known as the “Survivor Chair”). The otherwise traditional plastic chairs are available in black or grey and, as can be expected, are customized to look like they (barely) survived […]


8 Aug
The "Mr Smith the Second" chair by Anthony Hartley

British designer Anthony Hartley has unveiled his latest piece of furniture, the “Mr Smith the Second” chair. Launching at the London Design Festival next month, the brightly colored chair is hand made of beech wood and then painted with a high gloss lacquer which makes it look like a giant rainbow-colored Twizzler. via Design Milk


7 Jul
Walt's favorite piece of modernism gets a revision

Walt Disney, known for his perennial thoughts of dreaming, innovation and enjoying life like a kid (as well as some alleged racism), was a fan of the original Airline Chair. So much so that he personally selected the Airline when he built his original Burbank animation studio in the late 1930s. Now Los Angeles designer […]


16 May
Dzmitry Samal’s swooping fender furniture

For anyone that wants to make a real impression in their humble abode, the Oxoye chair does the job aptly. Parisian-based Belarusian designer Dzmitry Samal lifted subtle cues from retro car lines — most notably their swooping fenders — when designing this armchair reminiscent of the streamlined automobiles from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. Constructed […]