Architects Think Furniture
OASE#121

OASE 121 frames furniture design as an evolving practice through which architects engage questions of materiality, authorship, mobility, and space. Furniture appears as both specific and universal: designed for particular settings yet capable of moving across contexts, often outlasting the architecture it was made for.

Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, OASE 121 traces how furniture entered architectural discourse through the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk and modernism’s ambition to shape everyday life “from chair to city.” Across essays and conversations, furniture emerges as an experimental and critical space — one that allows architects to work directly with objects, production, and social rituals. OASE 121 positions furniture as a lens through which architectural thinking continues to be tested, questioned and renewed.

Editors: Aslı Çiçek, Christoph Grafe, Fredie Floré (guest editor)

With contributions by
Irene Cieraad, Cat Rossi, Javier Gimeno- Martinez, Site Practice, Michele Rinaldi, Amaryllis Jacobs, Oliver Luetjens, Thomas Padmanabhan, Gerlinde Verhaeghe, Sam Chermayeff, Moritz Küng, Trix Haussmann, Aslı Çiçek, Theo De Meyer, Stefanie Evereart, Caroline Voet, Christoph Grafe