Chromanomad 01 is a chair born from a precise cultural re-reading. The project takes shape through artist Felipe Pantone, who together with the team at TroubleMag starts from the reinterpretation of a traditional African birthing chair, historically used by nomadic communities. An object charged with meaning, tied to the body, birth, and movement, reimagined through the language of contemporary design.
The forms of Chromanomad 01 imagined by Felipe Pantone appear essential yet never neutral. The lines are sharp, almost architectural, while the color palette breaks any temptation toward silent minimalism. It is an object that occupies space decisively, conceived more to be observed than simply used—closer to a habitable sculpture than to a traditional chair. In this sense, the project situates itself within that increasingly compelling zone where design moves away from industrial logic and adopts the codes of contemporary art.
The decision to make Chromanomad 01 available exclusively through private sale further reinforces its status as an artwork. Not a product meant for endless replication, but a piece conceived for a few—collectors and enthusiasts who read design as a cultural gesture before a functional one. An approach consistent with TroubleMag’s editorial vision, which has always operated at the intersection of imagery, visual research, and experimentation.
The February 8 drop directly ties the chair to the release of issue 5 of the print magazine, creating a direct dialogue between object and editorial content. Chromanomad 01 is not merely presented by TroubleMag—it becomes its natural three-dimensional extension: a physical manifesto that translates into matter the same aesthetic tension running through the magazine’s pages.
More than a chair, Chromanomad 01 is a signal. An invitation to rethink design as a fluid, nomadic territory, where color, form, and function do not follow predefined rules but instead construct, piece by piece, a new visual grammar.
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