Peach

Peach easy chair is the first member of Annabella's ongoing seating series, the Crosses.

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Peach challenges the conventions of upholstered furniture by focusing on a hidden yet crucial design question: how to shape foam in a more sustainable, less wasteful way. Instead of relying on molded or intricately cut foam—which either drives up costs or produces significant waste—we work with flat foam and “tuft” it using custom metal elements. These pieces tension the foam into its final form without any need for adhesives, allowing for easy disassembly, cleaning, and eventual recycling. In doing so, Peach becomes a structural approach to sustainability—one that’s usually invisible, but here is made boldly visible and integral to the chair’s distinctive aesthetic.

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The resulting shape is deliberately provocative, drawing attention to the essential mechanics behind its comfort. Peach also continues our exploration of furniture as a “bridge” between the user and the space: it merges insights from architecture, textile design, and even jewelry-making into a single expressive object. This interplay of soft and hard elements—like metal ear cuffs against human skin—conveys a sense of tension that reflects deeper emotional undertones, reminding us that not all design must be about pure “well-being.” By placing structural innovation at the forefront, Peach invites reflection on what sustainability can look like when it’s woven into the very core of a product, rather than merely applied as a surface statement.