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Systems thinking in furniture — why a cabinet is more than storage
How the discipline of digital systems applies to physical space — and why that fundamentally changes furniture design.
A room behaves like a system. Air flows, cables, light, sound — everything interacts. Most furniture designers think in objects. I try to think in flows.
That means: not "what does this piece look like" but "where does the cable come from, where does the air go, what action does the user perform three times a day?". Only when you answer those questions can you design an object that disappears into a space rather than claiming space.
This is what I mean by integrated systems. Not technology as an added feature — but technology as part of the structure itself.