Dimly lit and awash in Huluween’s colorcast, fear lives not just on screen but in the body. Shoulders rise. Breath shortens. Fists clench as the show’s score tightens its hold. It’s that liminal instant between the jump scare and the exhale that the EDGEOFYØR Seat seeks to embody.
Created in collaboration with Disney+ and Hulu, San Francisco–based furniture studio Fyrn has reimagined its iconic Mariposa Chair into something at once skeletal and strikingly alive. Dubbed the EDGEOFYØR Seat, the conceptual piece strips away nearly 80 percent of its original form, leaving only the essential structure – an exaggerated act of subtraction that mirrors the stripping away of composure by fear.
“When the Disney+ team described that lean-in moment during a scary movie – when your whole body tenses and you can’t look away – we knew exactly what to build,” says Fyrn co-founder David Charne. “The EDGEOFYØR Seat is the furniture equivalent of a jump scare: use at your own risk.”
Fyrn has built its reputation on craftsmanship and integrity – its work defined by clean geometry, visible joinery, and American ingenuity. But for this project, the studio ventured into the emotional ergonomics of fear. The result is a piece that challenges the very premise of comfort, inviting the sitter to participate in a delicate balance between familiarity and disquiet.
The chair’s slight silhouette, rendered in solid wood and finished in charcoal black, is accented with Fyrn’s patented Copper Bronze brackets, a nod to the precision and engineering that ground all of its designs. And yet, with its seat all but gone, what remains feels less like a place to rest and more like a sculptural embodiment of anticipation.
“We wanted to make something unmistakably Fyrn – honest in its materials and construction – but also something that makes you look twice. A chair, but no seat,” Charne adds.
That gesture, an intentional withholding, creates a kind of psychological charge. The sitter becomes acutely aware of their body, of balance and weight, and the subtle choreography of restraint. Fear becomes spatial with its own architectural implications.
Working alongside Disney+ and their creative agency Callen, Fyrn’s team translated cinematic tension into physical form, visual metaphor into visceral design. The collaboration, which launches as part of Huluween, was conceived as a tongue-in-cheek homage to the immersive nature of horror.
“Huluween on Disney+ delivers the kind of scares that keep you on the edge of your seat – so we carved away the rest,” says Zack Jerome, VP of Brand and Marketing Strategy at Disney+. The statement, half in jest, articulates the spirit of the piece: a meeting of craft and narrative where wit becomes a design language.
Very limited in run, the EDGEOFYØR Seat is not meant to be mass-produced or even necessarily used. It is, rather, a meditation on what design can provoke. It turns an idiom – “on the edge of your seat” – into a physical truth, compressing metaphor into material form.
The success of this collaboration lies in how it activates the body as part of the viewing experience. In traditional furniture design, comfort is paramount; in the EDGEOFYØR Seat, comfort is precisely what’s withheld. What results is an awareness that borders not on empathy, but a reflection of what happens when horror narratives enter the nervous system.
Somewhere between sculpture and satire, the EDGEOFYØR Seat reminds us that good design can make us feel before we even understand why. It’s a study in restraint and reaction, a haunted object for the season that celebrates both.
“Some of the best and worst design is evocative,” Fyrn reflected. “At the extremes, the feelings are overt, but even subtle design can subconsciously affect our emotional state. The EDGEOFYØR Seat just takes that truth to its limit.”
Though born from playfulness, the collaboration carries a resonance that lingers. It speaks to the endurance of stories, and of objects, that stay with us long after the lights come back on. In a world where furniture is often reduced to utility, Fyrn’s latest experiment reclaims it as a medium for emotion – a stage for the invisible drama of the body in space. The EDGEOFYØR Seat doesn’t invite you to sit. It dares you to.
To see this and other furnishings by the brand, visit fyrn.com.
Photography provided by Walt Disney Studios.
