{"id":17361,"date":"2026-02-28T01:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/4-upholstered-columns-become-a-chair-and-one-bends-into-a-table\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:29:23","slug":"4-upholstered-columns-become-a-chair-and-one-bends-into-a-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/4-upholstered-columns-become-a-chair-and-one-bends-into-a-table\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Upholstered Columns Become a Chair, And One Bends Into a Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a particular kind of furniture that makes you stop scrolling. Not because it\u2019s trying to be art, and not because it\u2019s doing anything especially clever with materials or manufacturing. It stops you because it looks like something you\u2019ve never seen before, and then a second later, you completely understand it. Liam de la Bedoyere\u2019s Quad Chair is exactly that kind of object.<\/p>\n

The concept is almost aggressively simple. Four upholstered cylindrical columns stand together in a cluster. Three of them are straight, functioning as seats or backrests depending on how you lean into them. The fourth one bends at its base in a tight U-curve, loops back up, and becomes a side table at standing height. The whole thing is covered in a single color of fabric, currently shown in a striking orange-red that does a lot of work in making the form read clearly. Available too in yellow and blue, but the red is the one that landed.<\/p>\n

Designer: Liam de la Bedoyere<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What I find genuinely compelling here is the restraint. De la Bedoyere could have made this complicated. He didn\u2019t. There\u2019s no mixed material moment, no contrasting leg, no cutout geometry trying to signal craft or exclusivity. The Quad Chair is basically a pipe that got upholstered and brought some friends, and somehow that reads as both completely absurd and completely resolved.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The side table column is the real insight. Furniture that doubles as something else is usually a compromise, some convertible thing that does two jobs adequately and neither one well. But because the column is already structural, already cylindrical, already the right diameter to hold a glass or a book, bending one back up to table height doesn\u2019t feel like a feature. It feels inevitable. A Dieter Rams book propped between the columns in the product photography feels less like a styling choice and more like the designer making a point about what the object is actually for.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The brand behind the project is Bored Eye Design, which is a name that earns more credibility the longer you look at the work. There\u2019s something in the moniker that acknowledges where design ideas actually come from: not from briefs or trend reports, but from a certain restless attention to ordinary things. Four cylinders. One bent. That\u2019s it. You can feel the boredom that preceded the idea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting this is currently a personal project rather than a production piece. The renders are polished enough that it\u2019s easy to assume otherwise, and the product photography, shot on pale timber floors against clean white walls, is exactly the kind of work that gets picked up by design publications and mistaken for launch imagery. De la Bedoyere is clearly fluent in the visual language of contemporary design brands.<\/p>\n

Whether the Quad Chair translates to manufacturing is a different question. The upholstered U-bend is the interesting technical challenge, and how that curve holds its shape over time, under weight, across different uses, is something renders can\u2019t tell you. But as a concept it\u2019s more than compelling. It\u2019s the kind of thing that makes you wonder why it doesn\u2019t already exist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Furniture has been having a cylindrical moment for a while now. Puffy, tubular, soft-edged forms have been creeping through interior design for the better part of a decade, a reaction against the hard-cornered minimalism that preceded it. The Quad Chair sits comfortably in that lineage without feeling derivative. It has a specific idea at its center, which is more than can be said for a lot of what\u2019s riding the same aesthetic wave.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The top-down photograph is the one I keep coming back to. Four circular ends of upholstered columns arranged on a light wood floor, looking less like furniture and more like a glyph, or a punctuation mark from an alphabet that doesn\u2019t exist yet. It\u2019s the kind of image that sticks. The kind of object you\u2019d sketch on a napkin and then be surprised, weeks later, to realize it was real.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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