French Industrial Designer Invents Durable, Four-Season Outdoor Inflatable Furniture (opens in new tab)

French industrial designer Johannes Faure-Brac knows furniture; he grew up in his father's woodworking shop in the French Alps, building traditional furniture. But after gaining two degrees in ID and working in the furniture industry, he found its practices wasteful. "It had become inefficient to produce, store, transport [furniture]," he writes. "A cumbersome, expensive, energy-intensive system."Ever more volume, containers, logistics costs, and wasted energy. To compensate, the industry has...