Furniture art gets tactile in the Pangolin Series by jacobwallstudio. Each piece is built from industrial foam offcuts, tied into a sculptural lattice that looks as alive as it feels. The kicker: its thermo-chromic surface shifts color in response to both temperature and touch.

What starts as deep teal blooms into gradients of green when pressed—an evolving record of interaction. This responsive design turns seating into an event, capturing traces of time, body heat, and environment. The effect is both playful and strangely mesmerizing, like a textile version of heat-mapping.

For commercial spaces, the appeal lies in its duality. It’s a showpiece that invites curiosity yet functions as furniture, a rare balance in art-driven design. The material story adds another layer: waste foam transformed into something exuberant and unexpected. Designers looking for fresh interactive moments might also consider Kartell’s Jellies Coat Hanger, another example of a functional object reimagined as tactile sculpture.

Walls’ work shows how seating can move beyond static form into living surface—design that breathes with its surroundings.

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