Stack at home: Dirty Furniture, September 2021
Dirty Furniture is interested in what happens “When design leaves the showroom”, exploring the messy, unintended stuff that’s thrown up when people start actually using designed objects.
This issue is themed around the phone, and editors Anna Bates and Elizabeth Glickfeld started work on it back when there was widespread concern about phone addiction and the need for ‘digital wellness’. And then the pandemic hit. “Suddenly these maligned objects became our lifelines”, Bates and Glickfield explain in their opening letter. “While many aspects of life passed through our phones previously, now absolutely everything did. How then could we distil the meaning of the phone into a magazine?”
The issue born out of that question considers the telephone technologically, politically, socially and spiritually — and features Kim Kardashian as cover star, naturally.
Stack readers loved their September delivery as much as we do. Below we’ve rounded up our favourite photographs of Dirty Furniture.
5. Desk goals
Dirty Furniture is the star of what looks like the world’s most enviable desk.
4. All that glitters
We love the sheen on this picture of Dirty Furniture, by Stack subscriber Terri Jane.
3. Summer days
Lovely to see Dirty Furniture basking in the last of the summer sun.
2. Random magazines in the mail
We’re big fans of this shot of the photogenic Kim K, against a photogenic wall.
I love getting random magazines in the mail from @StackMagazines. The latest is from @Dirty_Furniture. pic.twitter.com/KdvWptx8XC
— Viktor Bezić (@viktorbezic) September 25, 2021
1. Quite the week
We love this winning photograph by Stack subscriber John Willshire, reading with his very lovely dog.
It has been quite the week. So allowing myself a little time to read the latest @StackMagazines drop. The dog’s decided this is a good idea too. pic.twitter.com/e0p4BFq13w
— John V Willshire (@willsh) September 17, 2021
