What’s in a name? Sometimes everything. The tailor-titled Shape is a small lounge chair that revels in its shape. A simple backrest arcs into a pair of armrests that then meld into an upholstered seat. Shape is a study in shape: a communique on configuration, a forum on form, a proclamation on profile. Available through Italian Design of Brookline, Massachussets, Shape represents the best that modern chairs offer-streamlined, sexy, and simple.

Shape Chair. Produced for Italian Design.

Made of injected flame retardant foam with an inner metal structure, Shape comes in a wide array of colors. In red it looks like a cherry; in purple like a plum. Its rotundity transforms it into a fruit or a flower, a life saver or a lime, a gum drop or a gasket. On its chrome base, Shape becomes a topiary or a lollipop. Shape is mutable-even its movement. A swivel version allows for full 360° rotation. Shape is also a good size, measuring a generous but not overwhelming 25" D x 24" W x 28 ½" H.

In orange fabric, place it in front of a fireplace. Use it as an accent-perhaps in green-in a black and white living room. Let its shape reign if you simply opt for Shape in a monochromatic bedroom. Shape is even a great partner for a sleek vanity table. Shape shapes itself to its surroundings. Primal geometry makes Shape a chair for here, there, everywhere.