The publication on Furniture Works focuses on Franz West’s exploration of the boundary between sculpture, design, and use.

Since the 1980s, West developed furniture objects that function neither as purely utilitarian design pieces nor as autonomous sculptures, but as hybrid forms intended to invite bodily interaction, social exchange, and spatial awareness. Sitting, leaning, or simply occupying these objects becomes part of the artistic experience itself.

Characteristically, West employed modest materials, provisional constructions, and deliberately rough surfaces that resist conventional expectations of refined design. Colour, upholstery, and form serve less ergonomic optimisation than the activation of a psychophysical relationship between object, body, and environment. The furniture thus extends West’s broader sculptural practice, in which art is understood less as a static object of contemplation than as a situational and participatory encounter.

The publication situates these works within installation contexts, interiors, and exhibition environments, demonstrating how West systematically blurred the boundaries between art, everyday culture, and social behaviour. His furniture operates as communicative sculpture, linking use, perception, and reflection on the conditions of artistic experience.