Press
Everything written about a collection that asked for nothing.
Since April 2016 Boring Collection has made every effort to remain invisible. Not everyone has respected that. Below, in order, everything we know of, from Milan to Shanghai.
Press kit, images and the people to call: info@boringcollection.com
Azure Magazine wrote about the modest grey tone with a suspicious level of enthusiasm. Design Milk praised our ability to make office furniture boring on purpose. TL Magazine called the project the antidote to the hype of Salone. Stylepark called the Orgatec tower a furniture totem. It's Nice That, Frame and Design Indaba picked up the film. Domus aligned Boring with a broader critique of playful workplaces. NRC photographed the chair. In 2025 Architectenweb and PI Online reported that the collection had come home to its designers. Compliments, unfortunately.
Boring Collection does not claim any attention. All shapes are straightforward and discrete, with one goal: to draw the eye to the things that actually matter.
The office people steal the scene even though they are surrounded by the designs of The Boring Collection, just like the architects intended.
A new series of office furniture that pays homage to the dullness of office life and the universal symbol of boredom: the crumpled paper ball.
When a day at the office proves too boring to handle, a slam dunk can wipe away a humdrum day.
The antidote to the typical hype and spectacle of Salone del Mobile this year.
Una nuova serie di arredi poco appariscenti la cui discreta eleganza garantisce una presenza nei moderni uffici che non distrae da ciò che è veramente importante.
Dutch brand Lensvelt is about to launch its Boring series in Milan. It can be considered avant-garde and fun, in obvious contrast to its name.
Collezione da ufficio dichiarata noiosa, incapace di distrarre, resa assolutamente divertente e giocosa in una enorme battaglia di palline di carta.
Scooping up the Best Concept Award was The Boring Collection. Visitors were given a balled up press release to throw in wastepaper baskets. The result was a delightful mess.
A poetic grey ghost of office life.
A grey chair on a floor of paper, in the newspaper.
Boring has never sounded so appealing.
Quite pleasant and restful, even fashionably minimal.
Ensure it conforms to the long list of norms, so that there is more money and attention left over for the non standardized stuff.
Un'estrema critica alle concessioni ludiche degli spazi lavorativi contemporanei.
Milano Design Award 2016 for best concept, finalist Dutch Design Awards 2016, and even a Best Dutch Book Design nomination.
Awards
Recognised, against its will.
Milano Design Award 2016, Best Concept, for the launch installation at Salone del Mobile. Finalist Dutch Design Awards 2016. Nomination Best Dutch Book Design for the 2016 catalogue by Sanne Beeren. We graciously accepted by doing absolutely nothing different.
Boring fact
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.