Furniture has always been a little emotionally unavailable. Chairs, especially, tend to just sit there acting useful, pretending they do not know exactly how many terrible decisions have been made on them. So it feels almost suspiciously sweet that someone finally made a chair that has tiny hearts hiding in its structure, like a minimalist Scandinavian love note with legs.
The Muuto x Spacon Close to Heart Limited Edition Chair is an aluminum design chair built around a quiet little joke: its custom extruded profiles form heart shapes where the frame comes together. From across the room it looks like a sleek, silvery, industrial-modern chair. Up close, it starts behaving like furniture that remembered your anniversary.
The chair was created by Muuto with Copenhagen-based design studio Spacon as part of Muuto’s Next Chapters project, which celebrates the brand’s 20th anniversary by asking outside creatives to reinterpret pieces from its catalog. This one takes the Linear Steel Chair and turns it into a collectible, limited-run aluminum object that is equal parts seating, sculpture, and architectural flirtation.
Only 150 numbered pieces are being made, which means this is not the kind of chair you accidentally buy because you needed something near the kitchen table by Friday. It is more like the chair equivalent of a limited vinyl pressing, except instead of music it plays the sound of your guests slowly realizing the frame is made of little hearts.
The real cleverness is that the heart motif is not slapped onto the chair like a Valentine’s Day sticker panic. The heart shape is integrated into the aluminum profiles themselves, so it reads as a structural detail rather than decoration. That keeps the whole thing from turning into novelty furniture, which is important because novelty furniture can go from charming to “why is there a giant lip-shaped sofa in the hallway” with terrifying speed.
Muuto says the chair is made in Denmark from extruded aluminum and CNC-routed parts. That gives it the crisp, engineered feel you would expect from a design object that wants to be both romantic and suspiciously precise. The seat and back keep the simple linear language of the original chair, while the exposed profiles give the limited edition its small emotional malfunction.
It also helps that the chair is not trying to be plush, cuddly, or aggressively cute. It is still a metal chair. It still has the clean lines of something that belongs in a gallery, showroom, boutique hotel lobby, or the apartment of a person who owns one vase and somehow makes it look threateningly intentional. The hearts are there, but they are subtle enough that you have to earn the moment by actually looking.
That makes it a good fit for design collectors, Muuto fans, people furnishing a very specific corner, and anyone who wants a conversation piece that does not scream across the room wearing a novelty hat. Put it near a desk, in an entryway, beside a bed, or in that one corner of the living room that currently contains a plant you keep apologizing to.
There are practical limits, because of course there are. This is a limited edition collectible chair, not a bargain dining set or a soft lounge chair meant for eight-hour movie marathons. The appeal is the combination of industrial material, precise fabrication, and the hidden heart-shaped profile. If your household treats chairs like step ladders, laundry islands, or wrestling obstacles, maybe let this one live somewhere calmer.
Still, as an object, it has a nice little personality problem. It is cold aluminum pretending to be sentimental. It is a serious design piece with a tiny crush. It is furniture for people who like minimalism but still want proof that the room has a pulse.
Close to Heart chair details
The Close to Heart chair is limited to 150 numbered pieces, with a launch tied to 3daysofdesign and selected drops planned through 2026. Its most important design feature is the custom heart-shaped aluminum profile, which appears as an integrated frame detail instead of an added ornament.
Muuto lists the price at EUR 995 / DKK 7,495, and availability is through Muuto’s Close to Heart page and selected drop locations. The product page is also the best place to check whether the current drop is still available, because a 150-piece chair with tiny structural hearts is exactly the sort of thing that can disappear while you are busy pretending to be financially responsible.
Image credit: product images via Muuto.