Hasta La Ideas

I keep waiting for the clothes valet to make a comeback; it might be the piece of furniture I’ve covered the most. The object would be a useful place to toss clothes that are not dirty enough to launder, but not clean enough to go back in the drawer.

As Simone Giertz has observed, most folks simply use a chair for this task. She resolved to design something more elegant, and her clever solution features a swiveling portion that can be deployed for clothes duty as needed.

Here she walks you through her design process—as you’d expect, it took a while to arrive at the final design—and shows you how she built it:

“I just love the idea of not designing for the perfect day, but for the normal day,” says Giertz.

Her Instagram video of the chair has gone viral, with over 400,000 likes at press time. Multiple followers have commented that this is furniture design for real life, and unsurprisingly, lots of people want to order the chair. (At press time Giertz hadn’t announced any production plans.)