Stumpf’s “Comfort Criteria” specified that furniture should be as inviting ... it’s like a friendly little cartoon product in a way, with these nice, soft edges and no corners.” ...

Nendo has also looked to Japanese cartoons for design ideas. The fifty metallic chairs in this set, first presented in a Milanese cloister courtyard, are based on the variety of expressive lines ...

Or perhaps like its namesake snake, if that snake was a cheery child's cartoon character who decided ... with the popularity of the rounded shape furniture. It’s trickled from bigger pieces ...

The collection’s intersecting terrazzo slabs and metal components inevitably recall Memphis furniture, which was often fashioned from plastic laminates jazzed up with graphic terrazzo patterns. Authié ...