Boring facts
Things you did not need to know about grey furniture.
All the Boring facts that are scattered across this site, collected on one page. Did you know. Now you do.
The grey is RAL 7044, silk grey. Many shades were tried in 2015. This one adapts to its surroundings and is in stock everywhere, which also kept the price down.
In 16:59, the film by Lernert & Sander, one man throws one paper ball per second into sixty bins. The paper was never dubbed in; what you hear is what fell.
The Memphis tower from Orgatec 2016 was six metres high and was later shown at Design Museum Den Bosch. Current whereabouts unknown.
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.
The only mark on the Boring Clock is at five o'clock. The rest of the day you will have to estimate.
There will never be a Boring sofa. Sofas are allowed to want attention.
The 2016 catalogue by Sanne Beeren was nominated for Best Dutch Book Design. Every spread carried the line It is not about furniture.
In April 2016 Corriere della Sera printed a photograph of a grey chair on a floor of paper balls. It is still the only time we made an Italian newspaper.
The name Boring started as a joke in 2015. Friends remembered it better than the name of the architecture office itself.
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.
Ask the team about the future and they will say world domination with a straight face. They mean grey desks in offices across the world.
The Bin has been photographed with flowers, champagne, a wig, falling toys and a dog. It is 260 millimetres across and 310 high, and it is still a bin.
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.
Every product has a Chinese, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian description in a spreadsheet from 2016. The grey needed no translation.
The Comfort Chair is one of the few office chairs in the world with grey castors. Most chairs have black ones, because nobody asked.
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.
Since 2026 the control box, the cables and the hand control of the Future Desk are grey as well. It took a year of asking suppliers the same question.
The Future Desk remembers three heights. The colleagues who share it remember none.
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.
The Monitor Arm is made by Dataflex, who normally make them in silver and black. Ours was the first grey one in their catalogue.
The pen costs less than a coffee in most of the offices it ends up in. It is the cheapest way to buy something boring.
The notebook has grey pages edges and a grey ribbon. The paper inside is white, because we are not monsters.
The Bin holds 15 litres. On an average day in an average office that is about four hours of paper.
The separation screen is upholstered in Regain, a fabric woven from recycled PET bottles. Roughly 40 bottles per screen.
Delivery within two weeks for smaller orders has been the rule since 2024. The record is two days, for a client who asked nicely.
The Coat Stand has 24 hooks and no idea what a coat is. It holds them anyway.