Design LabFurniture is one room in a much bigger house
The field
Furniture is one room in a much bigger house
The house is called industrial design (or product design — same thing, mostly): the craft of shaping every physical object people use. Slide across it. The skills travel with you.
A dining chair
Designers here obsess over
Proportion, comfort, how wood and steel want to bend, the five degrees of backrest tilt between napping and aching.
Who hires them
Herman Miller · Vitra · IKEA · small studios everywhere
Notice what didn't change as you dragged: sketching, proportion, materials, and caring how something feels in a human hand. Start in furniture and every other room in the house is open to you.