During Salone del Mobile 2019, Beyond Space presented The Museum — a matte-blue refuge from Milan’s annual design excesses. While others reached for the spectacular, Beyond Space built something deliberately quiet: a spatial loop of minimal rooms filled with Dutch work that mostly refused to shout.
Somewhere in the centre of this silence sat the Boring Collection. Naturally.
Uninterested in attention.
The Boring Desk was assigned the role of press desk — a task it performed without ceremony, flourish, or visible emotion. A few neatly stacked press kits were placed on top. No signage. No theatrics. It just stood there. Ready. Steady. Slightly underappreciated. Exactly as intended.
As the first fully grey office furniture line on the market, Boring had already made its non-mark in 2016. It was created to comply with the strictest European norms and to vanish into the background of every office that ever tried to be more than its budget. Since then, it has quietly become something of a Dutch design classic, though the collection would never call itself that.
At The Museum, Boring wasn’t so much exhibited as it was used — by visitors looking for somewhere to sit, by guides who needed to rest their feet, by curators who were more interested in the art than in the chairs beneath them. The pieces didn’t require context. Or labels. Or approval. They were simply there, doing their job — without ever interrupting the room.
In a week full of shiny distractions, Boring did what it always does:
Comply. Disappear. Deliver.
And if anyone noticed it, they didn’t say much.
