The smallest pieces in a room are often the ones that make it feel complete.
A side table is rarely just functional. It becomes the quiet pause beside a sofa, the place where daily rituals settle, and the element that brings balance to the larger composition of a space.
Small in scale, but never insignificant.
@objectsandideas | The Name Says Everything
Di Tao and Bob Dodd founded the Toronto studio in 2015 with one mission - to find a voice in every design. To make pieces that speak for themselves. That inspire people to use, love, and touch them every day.
Quiet objects. Significant presence.
Most beds are designed to disappear into a room.
Faye Toogood built one that refuses to.
The Lie Low is a collaboration between Toogood and @poltronafrauofficial - and the productive tension between their two practices is exactly what makes it work.
Poltrona Frau brings century-old leather craftsmanship and technical rigour. Toogood brings her signature chubby sculpturalism and a deliberate rejection of the formal. The leather is intentionally wrinkled. The contours are generous and rounded, referencing the bold, oversized shapes of 1970s interiors.
The result is a bed Toogood describes simply as one that entirely embraces you.
Not a statement piece. A sanctuary.
Meet The Maker: @iniarchibong
A chair he designed is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That is one sentence about Ini Archibong. There are many more.
Nigerian-American. Based in Switzerland. Informed by mathematics, philosophy, and world religions. Working with Hermès, Herman Miller, and institutions that collect design as art.
Every piece from Design by Ini carries the trace of a specific idea, worked through with the kind of rigour most designers reserve for structure alone. The Atlas Series. The Oshun Collection. The Moirai System. Objects that feel inevitable once you are in the same room as them.
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Wire chairs have always existed in that rare space between structure and air.
There’s something almost architectural about them - the way they hold form without ever feeling visually heavy. Built from line, grid, and negative space, they bring presence into a room without overpowering it.
From Harry Bertoia’s sculptural experiments to the Eames’ softer interpretations, each piece approaches lightness differently. Some feel graphic and precise. Others feel almost fluid.
What makes them enduring isn’t just the silhouette.
It’s their ability to disappear and stand out at the same time.
If you had to choose one to live with every day - which one would it be?
The name Zanat translates simply to “craft” in Bosnian. The brand lives up to it entirely.
Founded on a UNESCO-listed woodcarving tradition from Konjic, Bosnia, Zanat is a four-generation family story that became an international design brand without abandoning a single thing that made it worth knowing about. Every piece is shaped by hand. Every surface carries the trace of a decision made by a person, not a machine.
Structured silhouettes. Sculptural profiles. Solid wood with hand-carved textures and leather upholstery. Furniture that does not announce itself, but reveals itself slowly, through use and proximity.
This is design through the human hand.
The sofa started as a lump of Cornish butter, shaped by slippery fingers.
That is not a metaphor. That is the actual design process.
@t_o_o_g_o_o_d Faye Toogood’s Butter Sofa for @tacchini_italia - part of the Bread & Butter collection — began not at a CAD station but at the breakfast table.
Modular and reconfigurable, the sofa rests on oversized building block volumes - upholstery that melts across its structure, soft enough to invite and solid enough to hold. You configure it to your space. You configure it to your mood.
This is what it looks like when a designer refuses to begin at the screen.
India has 1,700+ GCCs. Most of their lobbies still feel like waiting rooms.
The brief has evolved. The furniture specification hasn’t kept pace.
This curation board changes that. 8 pieces. 2 zones. A complete contract specification that performs at scale without losing design intelligence.
Lobby: Area Sofa (MIDJ) · Eclipse 04 Armchair (Very Wood) · Nota Side Table (Espattio) · Sui Coffee Table (Inclass)
Collaboration: Joe Sofa (Soft Line) · Nota Laptop Table (Espattio) · Hug Pod (Fantoni) · Versable High Table (Infiniti Design)
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Salone Del Mobile 2026 | Part III: Beyond the Object
As we move into the final days, the conversation has shifted from “what” we are making to “how” we are living. The city is officially a living archive where the boundaries between design, art, and architecture have completely dissolved.
The energy in Milan right now is electric. It’s a reminder that design isn’t just about the final image - it’s about the responsibility of the gesture.
#SaloneDelMobile #MDW26 #MilanDesignWeek #Fuorisalone #BreraDesignDistrict
Salone Del Mobile 2026: Part II 🇮🇹✨
Moving from the structural precision of the fairgrounds into the atmospheric soul of the city. As we dive deeper into the week, the theme of “A Matter of Salone” truly comes to life - where raw materiality meets poetic storytelling.
The marathon continues. Milan, you never cease to inspire.
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@isaloniofficial 2026: Here’s Everything Worth Knowing
From Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance channelling haute couture silhouettes for Dior, to Jil Sander treating 60 books like sacred objects under chrome pedestals, this edition is asking bigger questions about what design actually means.
The Line opened its permanent Milan gallery - a procession of stone and shadow that feels more museum than showroom. 6:AM filled an entire swimming pool with glass blocks and called it sound. Kelly Wearstler brought high baroque into conversation with H&M in a palazzo drenched in yellow light.
At Alcova, architecture and design collapsed into each other. Toogood transformed Tacchini’s vaulted cellar into a monochromatic world of tone and texture. And on the fair floor - Pedrali, Blå Station, Caimi, Fantoni, and Point each brought a distinct spatial intelligence to what the workplace and living room can be.
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📍 Milan, Italy | April 21–26, 2026
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@fayetoogoodstudio doesn’t design objects. She sculpts a way of living.
Founded in London in 2008, Studio Toogood emerged from an unlikely background - art history, interiors editing, and a childhood spent arranging stones and feathers in rural England.
The Roly Poly Chair made her name. Everything since has deepened the conversation.
The collection here spans the full Toogood world: the soft, boucle-wrapped curves of the Gummy sofa, daybed, and chair. The deliberately primitive power of the Fudge Chair on its block legs. The cast aluminium provocation of the Spade series. The quiet monumentality of the Chubby Bench. The Cobble, the Palette Console, the Roly Poly Dining Chair - each piece a study in elemental form.
Her work is held in major museum collections worldwide and has been exhibited at the V&A, Triennale Milano, and Chatsworth House. Maison & Objet named her Designer of the Year 2025.
This is design with an artist’s conviction.
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