Magazine C | CHAIR DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE

Home Visit

A Los Angeles Home with the Hollywood Sign in Full View

The Los Angeles home of film production designer James and artist and illustrator Claire is at once their workspace and a place of hospitality. The Togo sofa, inviting you to sink in and get comfortable, draws everyone who visits into easy, natural conversation.

Home Visit

The Legacy of French Modern Designers, Gathered in Paris's 11th Arrondissement

Where works by France's defining designers of the 1950s come together in effortless harmony

Home Visit

The Chair That Changed the Life of Cafe mk2's Owner

A furniture collection that began with Mart Stam's tubular steel chair changed the course of life for Jongmyung Lee, owner of mk2. One piece called forth another, and together they completed the world he inhabits today.

Magazine

Magazine <C> selects an iconic chair each issue
and explores the design and lifestyle around it —
a chair documentary magazine.

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03LOUIS GHOST

02NO.14

01STANDARD CHAIR

Magazine <C> selects an iconic chair each issue
and explores the design and lifestyle around it —
a chair documentary magazine.

04FAUTEUIL GRAND CONFORT

03LOUIS GHOST

02NO.14

01STANDARD CHAIR

Stories

Home Visit

A Los Angeles Home with the Hollywood Sign in Full View

Home Visit

A Tattoo Artist and a Writer's Home Where House Parties Happen

Editor Coco and tattoo artist Mars have made their Brooklyn home a gathering place for the LGBTQ+ community. Their vintage Togo sofa—roomy enough to seat six—is part of a lifestyle devoted to hospitality.

Home Visit

What Ronan Bouroullec Does at His Brittany Retreat

Three hours by train from Paris, Ronan Bouroullec's retreat holds a garden left to grow wild, where ivy, lavender, hydrangeas, and berry bushes flourish. Our conversation about work and life, shared over an ocean view, brims with affection for his native Brittany.

On-Site

A Hanok Housewarming with Be Formative, Moonjung Jang, and Il Studio

Objects of the Everyday, an exhibition held at Layer Hanok Atelier in Bukchon, explores how today's objects—at once strange and familiar—bridge past and present within the long history of the hanok.

People

Making Chairs from Car Airbags, Tent Fabric, and Discarded Blankets

Jinyeong Yeon continues his practice by deconstructing and reconstructing materials that have outlived their use.

People

What Happens When You Spend Five Years Designing a Single Chair

Danish designer Jonas Trampedach explores a wide range of materials, from wood to metal, creating furniture and objects defined by refined form and minimal beauty.

People

The Critic Duo Who Dissected a Thousand Chair Designs

Charlotte and Peter Fiell have explored the pivotal currents of design history through books including 1000 Chairs, Industrial Design A-Z, and Plastic Dreams.

Home Visit

A Minimalist Architect's Chair Collection

For Piero Lissoni, a designer who has led a wide range of architecture and industrial design projects, the highest form of beauty is "visual comfort."

Home Visit

Why a Designer of Singular Taste Loves to Cook

In Fredrik Paulsen's home on the outskirts of Stockholm, chairs by Charlotte Perriand, Alvar Aalto, and Gaetano Pesce sit alongside pieces of his own making.

People

A Chair That Holds Both Switzerland and Japan

Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the acclaimed design studio BIG-GAME has collaborated with KNS since 2011 — fifteen years of partnership that has steered its design toward ever greater precision and sustainability.

NEW !

Issue.08 Togo The Return of Fashionable Furniture

Designed by Michel Ducaroy in 1973, the Togo offered a comfort and innovation on a different level from the sofa conventions of its day, with its signature wrinkled surface, low seat resting directly on the floor, and all-foam construction. Issue No. 8 of Magazine C traces the Togo from its origins and production process to ten homes and ten Togo stories found around the world—from fashion brand owners to musicians, film production designers, and DJs. It also spotlights ten bold, experimental sofa designs of the 1970s, the decade that gave birth to the Togo.

SHOP

STANDARD CHAIR — Jean Prouvé

NO.14 — Michael Thonet

LOUIS GHOST — Philippe Starck

FAUTEUIL GRAND CONFORT — Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand

K Chair — Itsuo Okuyama

Stool 60 — Alvar Aalto

PK22 — Poul Kjærholm

TOGO — Michel Ducaroy

STANDARD CHAIR — Jean Prouvé

NO.14 — Michael Thonet

LOUIS GHOST — Philippe Starck