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Episode #7 of Objects Change the Way We Live

Most sofas decide how you’ll sit before you arrive. The Maralunga doesn’t.

Vico Magistretti designed it for Cassina in 1973 around a small piece of borrowed engineering, a bicycle chain, hidden in the backrest. Lift the headrest and the sofa sits upright, ready for conversation. Fold it down and the whole thing lowers into something you disappear into.

One object. Two postures. The decision left with whoever walks in.

It won the Compasso d’Oro in 1979. Design prizes usually recognise how something looks. This one recognised how something moves.

Then look at the upholstery. It isn’t pulled tight. It gathers and creases and settles, designed to look sat in before anyone has sat in it. Half a century in production, and it still hasn’t asked anyone to behave.

What does your sofa ask of you?

Edit by @calebkumiko

#interiordesign #vicomagistretti #designculture by @andmore.home

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a day ago

Gaetano Pesce’s Perspective

Most things we own were made to look exactly like everything else of their kind. Pesce spent a career refusing that.

He poured resin and let it settle unevenly. He kept the runs, the bubbles, the places where the colour didn’t quite agree. Every piece arrived different, because every person does.

Perhaps that’s what he meant by humanity in design. Not comfort. Character.

What’s your perspective? by @andmore.home

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3 days ago

Episode #6 of “Objects Changed the Way We Live”

In this episode I explore the 675 Butterfly Chair by Pierre Paulin. Most lounge chairs of the 1960s told you how to sit. Upright, formal & composed.

Pierre Paulin wasn’t interested in that.

Designed in 1963 for Artifort, the 675, nicknamed the Butterfly, was shaped around the body rather than against it. Its wings of leather slung across a tubular steel frame, wrapping you in rather than holding you at a distance.

Paulin believed furniture should reflect how people actually lived. And by the 1960s, people were living differently. More relaxed & less performative. The home was becoming a place to exhale.

Once his idea of beauty along with comfortability took shape, furniture was never really the same again.

#interiordesign #design #pierrepaulin by @andmore.home

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11 days ago

Episode #5 of “Objects that Changes the Way We Live”

In this episode I explore the “Zaisu”. A chair with no legs feels almost contradictory. But that’s exactly what makes it so fascinating.

Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan experienced increasing influence from the West. While many aspects of Western life were embraced, one tradition remained deeply rooted: sitting on close to the floor.

So rather than adopting the chair outright, designers adapted it. They removed the legs.

What remained was arguably the most important part of the chair: support.

The Zaisu offers comfort without abandoning the cultural rituals that shaped Japanese domestic life for centuries. It demonstrates that good design isn’t always about creating something new. Sometimes it’s about preserving what already works.

The versions by Kenji Fujimori and Tomomi Fukuda remain some of my favourites for the way they balance function, restraint, and beauty.

Edit by @shea.mcchrystal

#interiordesign #japan #understanding by @andmore.home

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Episode #4 of “Objects That Changed the Way We Live”

Excuse my delay, life has been busy but we are back! I’m so excited to provide you with some context of why flat-pack furniture came to be. Introducing the Crate Chair, designed by the one & only Gerrit Rietveld in 1934.

This chair was constructed from modest materials to supply communities a necessity — the chair. It was inspired by packing crates used to transport the same furniture it ended up becoming. Its design, so simple & practical yet beautiful & modern. I’m unsure how much it cost at the time, yet it was likely as much as an IKEA flat-pack you might pick up today.

Speaking of IKEA, the next time you end up building a DIY chair, bed or lampstand - you’ll now realise this idea originates from the early 1900s, when designers like Rietveld were trying to build accessible routes into furniture that ultimately shapes one’s environment.

Edit by @shea.mcchrystal
#cratechair #furnituredesign #interiordesign #designculture by @andmore.home

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2 months ago

And we’re back with episode #3 of our series “Objects That Changed the Way We Live” - diving into the pieces that reshaped everyday living.

This episode we explore the Zig Zag Chair by Gerrit Reitveld, a chair that has become a staple of reference for many notable designers including the likes of Donald Judd who keeps one in his New York SoHo apartment. Even though it was heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s furniture to begin with.

The chair is a staple and its reduced designed, showcased how the simplest of ideas are sometimes the most complex. Finding the right proportions and 45-degree angles so the structure would not collapse once a bum touched it is definitely the work of architectural prowess yet Reitveld, having given us the Red Blue chair also - a chair built upon its strict rectangular structure, this is no feat too small.

It’s sizing showcases how different the concept of scale was in the Second World War yet its desire is to produce that of a cantilever chair in one seemingly continuous strip. Designed initially to be mass produced and accessible for all, Reitveld did not want to limit his pieces but give accessibility to the function of his designs to all.

Edit by @shea.mcchrystal

#zigzagchair #furnituredesign #interiordesign #designculture by @andmore.home

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2 months ago

𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗔 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘁: A conversation series with friends and community of inspiration for Porter.
Launching our first episode with the wonderful and profound @rasharnpowell musical artist, community architect and founder of @andmore.home @andmore.world an ecosystem for creatives exploring how culture and creativity intersect with commerce. Through @andmore.home dedication to chairs and design objects, he’s building community and making the world of design accessible.

In conversation with Founder Liz Porter, we talk all things inspiration, timeless icons and protecting your inner creative voice in a sea of sameness. by @andmore.home

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And we’re back with episode #2 of our series “Objects That Changed the Way We Live” - diving into the pieces that reshaped everyday living.

We’re still in Italy, exploring the story behind the Sacco chair, designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro.

If it looks familiar, that’s because it sparked the bean bags many of us grew up with. But the Sacco did more than introduce a new silhouette, it completely redefined how we lounge, gather, and relax.

Soft yet supportive, structured yet free-form, it handed control over to the user. Sit, sink or sprawl - the chair adapts to you. A quiet revolution in comfort.

Edit by @shea.mcchrystal

#interiordesign #furniture #sacco #midcenturymodern by @andmore.home

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3 months ago

This is episode #1 of our new series how, “Objects Changed The Way We Live” —where we dive deep into the pieces that shaped how we live today.

As Milan Design Week is happening and I can’t be there, I thought it fitting to explore the “Blow Chair” designed by Italian designers Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi.

In an era where furniture was heavy and expensive, they sought to create accessibility through cheaper materials, yet executed with an incomprehensible level of finesse. Designed in the late 1960s, the Blow Chair has a memorable, playful structure that—despite its PVC shell, which warrants the assumption of ‘popability’ (not a word, but I’ll run with it)—gives an air of quality and durability. I personally believe it could be paired against a Noguchi coffee table in someone’s living room and no one would bat an eye.

Its design influenced not just indoor furniture, but also the pieces we so commonly see along a beach’s horizon or floating in hotel pools. It is undeniable how their decisions rippled outward. Even though today’s price no longer reflects its original affordability, its impact remains intact. Now when you see an inflatable chair of any kind, you’ll know who influenced it.

Edit by @shea.mcchrystal

#milansalone #blowchair #interiordesign by @andmore.home

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The Wishbone Chair was designed in 1949 by Danish designer Hans J. Wegner and has quietly become one of the most recognisable dining chairs in the world.

Over 100 steps go into making each one, with around 120 metres of hand-woven paper cord forming the seat.

Inspired by traditional Ming dynasty chairs, Wegner distilled centuries of craft into something simple, modern, and human

#furnituredesign #designhistory #interiordesign #wishbonechair #hanswegner by @andmore.home

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In 1969, Verner Panton designed a sofa you don’t just sit on but you climb

The Living Tower was part of a radical idea from the 1960s: furniture shouldn’t just fill a room, it should shape how we interact with each other.

It’s part sculpture, part sofa, part social experiment.

Today it’s experiencing a cultural revival from design collectors to musicians like @steve.lacy & @lilyachty bringing it back into the spotlight.

But maybe the real reason it resonates now is simple.

In a world built around screens and isolation, the Living Tower was designed to bring people together.

#designhistory #interiordesign #midcenturydesign #furnituredesign #designculture vernerpanton by @andmore.home

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4 months ago

The Monobloc chair might be the most successful chair ever made.

The idea actually dates back to 1946, when designer D.C. Simpson experimented with producing a chair from a single mould. The concept was there but the technology wasn’t ready.

It wasn’t until the 1980s, when companies like Grosfillex perfected large-scale plastic injection moulding, that the Monobloc finally became viable.

From everyday life to global stages with Bad Bunny on his album artwork and part of his Super Bowl performance.

#designhistory
#industrialdesign
#designculture
#badbunny by @andmore.home

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