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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Between Furniture and Fashion: A Subtle Correlation

Fashion and furniture are the design fields most sensitively attuned to the sensibilities and ways of living of their era. Pascal Monfort has long turned his attention to the point where fashion designers' gaze extends beyond clothing into space and furniture.

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A Home Full of Objects That Spark Ideas

With Saytouché products placed throughout, director Jaeryn Lim's home closely resembles the brand's actual showroom. There is one big difference, though: the Togo, asserting an unmistakable presence.