Collection
Everything the office needs. Nothing it wants.
24 products in one grey, RAL 7044. Every item is an office archetype, built from certified components and kept in stock. A desk is called Desk, a chair is called Chair.
Jump to: Desks · Chairs · Storage · Screens and panels · Office · Accessories · Flooring · Refurbished
Sony Music, Amsterdam. Photo Peter Tijhuis.
Desks
A Boring desk is the stage upon which the quotidian drama of office life unfolds quietly and with exemplary compliance. The Future Desk goes up and down on a grey column with a grey control box and a grey hand control, and remembers three heights. The Future Duo Desk does the same for two people who have agreed not to talk. The Classic Sit Stand Desk has been doing it since 2016 and sees no reason to stop. None of them calls attention to itself.
The Coat Stand weighs 40 kilograms and has 24 hooks: 16 on the top ring and 8 on the lower one, for the smaller colleagues. Four umbrellas fit in the middle.Boring fact
Chairs
The Boring task chair is the unsung hero of sedentary office workers: a chair so neutral that it makes beige seem flamboyant. Clad head to wheel in uniform grey, it is ergonomically competent but too polite to brag about it. Its specialty is being sat upon and then promptly forgotten.
The 2016 catalogue by Sanne Beeren was nominated for Best Dutch Book Design. Every spread carried the line It is not about furniture.Boring fact
Storage
Boring cabinets are the silent sentinels of the office, storage units so nondescript that they practically become part of the floor. They dutifully hold all the things you do not really want to deal with: paperwork, old binders, that mysterious tangle of cables, and enough office snacks to survive a minor apocalypse. The cabinet does not judge.
The Boring Mobile at BIG ART 2021 was 42 clocks on a six metre mobile, turning counter clockwise, to a soundtrack of office sounds by Coen Berrier. Including a fax machine.Boring fact
Screens and panels
Screens and panels are what make an open plan office bearable. They take sound out of the room and legs out of sight. Both come in the lengths of the desks, upholstered in the same fabric as the chairs, so the floor reads as one family.
Sina Fashion in China called the collection avant-garde and fun, in obvious contrast to its name. We took that as a compliment, which it may not have been.Boring fact
Office
The things every office has and nobody chose. A coat stand that weighs as much as a colleague, a pendant light that meets every norm there is, a clock and a bin. All in the one grey.
Everything ships in cardboard. The boxes are the only things in the collection that are not grey, and only because cardboard already comes in a colour that minds its own business.Boring fact
Accessories
In the Boring Collection, accessories are not about glitz or glam. They are the unsung office tools that typically get shoved in a drawer. By elevating them, metaphorically or physically if you are strong enough, Boring accessories prove that supporting actors can steal a scene by underplaying it.
Marmoleum Solid in Boring grey was mixed at the Forbo factory in Assendelft in 2020. It is made of linseed oil, wood flour and jute, and it ages by getting slightly more boring.Boring fact
Flooring
The floor is the largest grey surface in the office and the one nobody looks at. Carpet tiles with Tarkett and Marmoleum with Forbo, both in a Boring grey made for the collection.
The notebook has grey pages edges and a grey ribbon. The paper inside is white, because we are not monsters.Boring fact
Refurbished. Limited editions, until sold out.
We take back old Boring products, refurbish them and sell them again at a lower price with a six month warranty. Limited editions: what is there is there, until sold out or until the next ones come back to us. The shop has the current list. If you own classic Boring pieces that could use some maintenance, tell us what you have and what it should become. We can upgrade a desk to sit stand or give a chair new fabric.
