Stephanie Davidson picks Nora Furuholmen and Christian Saether's Whole in One Chair (manufactured by Mokasser)

“I would love to sit in this if I didn’t have a skirt on,” said Davidson of the Whole in One Chair, which debuted at the 2001 Scandinavian Furniture Fair. Looking like Eero Saarinen’s womb chair redrawn by Maarten van Severen, this monolithic cushion on legs bends down to meet the sitter and accommodates, according to Davidson, any pose, sag, or stick through its provocative center hole. Inspired by the patterns the body leaves when sitting in the snow, “it goes beyond the photogenic image to really succeed as a physical provocation and a comfort piece,” she says. “I see it as a suggestive form with this curious hole; the hole is the big question mark that’s inviting me as a body to play and figure it out through physical exploration.”

Courtesy Mokasser