MUUTO: The Next Chapter
Marking twenty years of new perspectives, Muuto brings together two numbered edition designs and a new book exploring how we see, feel and inhabit space.
A heart held within an aluminium profile. A curved glass surface that catches the room in shifting reflections. For Muuto, the next chapter of Scandinavian design begins with the relationship between precise construction and human feeling.
The Danish design house marks its twentieth anniversary with Close to Heart Chair by Spacon, Inner View Object by Lise Vester, and Next Chapters in Scandinavian Design — Muuto on Creating Intentional Spaces, published by Gestalten. Introduced as part of its 3daysofdesign celebration, the three releases carry a shared curiosity about how design invites presence, reflection and connection.
Scandinavian design has long drawn its strength from honest forms, everyday function and respect for materials. Muuto’s anniversary builds on those foundations, considering how craft and experimentation can give familiar objects fresh emotional significance.
Spacon’s Close to Heart Chair gives that thinking a particularly expressive form. Crafted in Denmark from extruded aluminium by Hydro, its ordered structure reveals an unexpected detail: each profile is shaped into a heart. The motif belongs to the construction itself, bringing warmth and playfulness into its architectural language.
“Close to Heart Chair is conceived with love,” says Spacon. “Translating something deeply intuitive into a precise design language.”
The heart is immediately recognisable, yet its place within this exacting system rewards closer attention. A structural decision becomes an affectionate gesture, giving the chair a character that moves between the rational and the instinctive. Released in an edition of 150 numbered pieces, it brings a lightness of spirit to a carefully controlled material process.
Lise Vester’s Inner View Object explores perception through glass. Sitting somewhere between sculpture and mirror, its curved surface gathers layered reflections as light changes around it. The surrounding space comes into view differently, encouraging a slower, more attentive encounter with the room.
Mouth-blown in Murano and finished by hand, each piece carries subtle variations in tone and brightness. These differences honour the region’s glassmaking heritage while giving every object its own presence.
“I’ve always been interested in how objects can shift our perspective,” says Vester, “how they can make us see a space, and ourselves within it, differently.”
Her design takes the familiar experience of a reflection and gently alters it. Curvature becomes a means of expanding the view, allowing an object to influence our awareness of the space beyond its edges. Like Close to Heart Chair, Inner View Object is limited to 150 numbered pieces.
The conversation extends onto the page in Next Chapters in Scandinavian Design — Muuto on Creating Intentional Spaces. Published by Gestalten and edited in collaboration with Muuto, the book brings together essays, photographic narratives and conversations with contemporary designers.
Five elements guide its exploration: colour, form, tactility, nature and light. Through them, the book considers how individual design decisions contribute to the atmosphere of an interior and the way it is experienced. Materials, objects and spatial relationships become part of a larger composition, shaping how a room is perceived, inhabited and felt.
Together, the releases give tangible form to Muuto’s anniversary thinking. The chair finds feeling within a structural system. The glass object draws attention to light and perception. The book opens those ideas into a wider discussion of contemporary living.
Twenty years on, Muuto continues to find possibility in the details closest to us: the profile beneath a hand, the reflection caught in glass, the quality of light that changes a room.
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Imagery courtesy of Muuto.
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