Furniture by Architects

The Spirit House Chair (2007) is made by architect Daniel Libeskind and Toronto furniture designer Klaus Nienkämper. It is constructed of stainless steel and weighs 180 lbs. Each chair takes 40 hours to build.

Desk designed by Natalie Dionne for the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal. The desk is made entirely of steel and retains some automatic qualities of hot-rolled steel. The steel is placed and bent in the same way origami is formed and finished by painting one side green.

The Contour Chair was designed by Frank Gehry in 1970. The chair is constructed using cardboard. The chair is actually very sturdy, despite what one would expect given the building material. One of the benefits of the contour chair is the ability to produce it inexpensively.


This chair, called COAT was designed by Fredrik Farg. The basic idea for the chair stemmed from Frank Lloyd Wright's Origami Chair (1949). The design uses elements of a coat, including "cufflinks" to hold the sides of the chair, and a "collar" that can be raised or lowered.