Imagine using computers to bring countless generations of chairs to life, then forcing them to mate with one another in an orgiastic rut of successive DNA pairings until you finally have the uberstuhl ...

Good or bad, every experiment starts with a hypothesis. For Dutch-born designer Jan Habraken with New York-based design studio FormNation, it was the question: “What if we apply the science of genetic ...

Does your chair have all the signs of good breeding? It supports your back, isn’t an eyesore to look at, and has every foot on the ground? If not, you might be able to find something a little bit ...