Most furniture exists to solve a problem. You need somewhere to sit, so you get a chair. You need storage, so you get a shelf. But what happens when a piece of furniture stops trying to solve anything and starts asking questions instead? The Permanent Souls collection does exactly that, creating chairs and stools that challenge everything we think we know about seating.
These aren’t your typical furniture pieces. Each one is crafted from discarded polypropylene nets, the kind you’d find abandoned at construction sites or old sports facilities. Instead of ending up in a landfill, these forgotten materials get a second life as something entirely unexpected. The nets are draped and shaped into chair forms that feel both familiar and otherworldly.
Designer: Iranzo
The visual impact is immediate and haunting. Light passes through the netting in patterns that shift as you move around each piece. The chairs appear solid from a distance, but up close they reveal their permeable nature. You can see through them, around them, and into the spaces they create. They exist in that strange territory between presence and absence, like memories made tangible.
This collection explores what happens when an object loses its original purpose but somehow endures. These nets once had clear jobs to do, holding things together or keeping things out. Now they’ve been transformed into something that questions the very nature of function. What remains when something no longer exists as it was, but still holds its shape in our minds?
The beauty lies in their refusal to dictate how they should be used. Sure, they’re chairs, but they never insist that you sit in them conventionally. They invite experimentation, encouraging you to interact with them however feels right. Some pieces drape onto the floor like fabric, others hold their shape more rigidly. Each one seems to whisper different possibilities.
There’s something deeply satisfying about seeing waste materials transformed into objects of contemplation and beauty. The sustainability angle isn’t heavy-handed here; it’s woven into the very DNA of the work. These pieces prove that upcycling doesn’t have to mean compromising on aesthetics or concept. Sometimes, the most discarded materials make the most compelling statements.
Sitting with these pieces, you start to understand their emotional weight. They make you pause, reconsider what you’re looking at, and question your assumptions about everyday objects. There’s a poetry in their impermanence, a gentle reminder that everything we create carries the memory of what it once was.
The Permanent Souls collection represents a shift in how we might think about design’s future. It suggests that the most powerful furniture doesn’t just serve our bodies, but engages our minds and memories too. In a world obsessed with solving problems, sometimes the most valuable thing design can do is simply make us wonder.
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