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Episode #7 of Objects Change the Way We LiveMost 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 @rasharnpowell

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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 @rasharnpowell

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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 @rasharnpowell

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Blistering heat or torrential rain, I’m grateful for a colourful life. God bless. by @rasharnpowell

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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 @rasharnpowell

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The same yesterday, today & forever by @rasharnpowell

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Life is better when done together by @rasharnpowell

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