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The parts that usually disappear under a chair, its frame and joints and legs, carry the argument of Strut Collection, three aluminium pieces that Istanbul studio YET. Design Studio keeps in full view.
Strut began as a single chair. YET. Design Studio showed it at Milan Design Week 2025, a seat whose legs, joints and back were left in plain view rather than resolved into something smoother. For 2026 the studio has widened that idea into a three-piece family, adding the Strut Table and the Strut Pouf, all of them drawn from the same source: the aluminium angle profile.
The premise is simple and slightly contrarian. The elements that support an object, the studio proposes, can also be what give it character. Chair, table and pouf are conceived as individual expressions of one structural idea, and across Strut those supporting elements are pushed to the foreground, left to set proportion and visual rhythm instead of hiding behind a finished surface. Balance, rhythm and construction become the common language that runs between the pieces, so the three share a logic rather than a silhouette. Each one, in the studio's words, translates the same principle “not through repetition of form, but through repetition of thought.”
The Table stretches that thinking across a horizontal plane, its repeated aluminium profiles reading as a measured rhythm of depth, light and shadow, its balanced proportions giving it a clear and confident presence. The Pouf pulls the same idea into a compact but confident form, pairing a circular seat with a rhythmic aluminium base, two distinct geometries brought into a balanced whole that changes from every viewpoint. Handled at this scale, aluminium moves past its purely technical associations and takes on a more tactile, expressive presence.
The Chair, still the anchor of the set, shows the method at its clearest. Its restrained geometry is shaped by the logic of construction, structure and connection left as part of what you see. It also stacks, and stacking turns out to be the point: lined up, the chairs multiply their lines and intervals into a larger rhythm that belongs to the room as much as to any single seat.
What began as one chair is now a furniture family, and the expansion is also the proof. Chair, table and pouf hold to a single structural idea across different scales and functions, which is where the collection lands the claim folded into its name, that, as the studio writes, “structure is no longer separate from identity, but becomes its defining element.”
