Close to Heart by Spacon for Muuto

Close to Heart

Launching during 3daysofdesign, Close to Heart will be available as part of the first drop of Muuto’s Numbered Edition Designs at the Voo Store pop-up at Other Circle / The Lab, Vermundsgade 40B, 2100 Copenhagen.

Before unfolding through selected drops throughout 2026.

Built from a precise system of aluminum profiles, the Close to Heart Chair reveals small heart-shaped connectors within its structure. The design balances architectural logic with emotional expression, turning a rational construction into a moment of warmth.

Spacon design studio

Spacon is a Copenhagen based, award winning spatial design studio working across strategy, branding, product, and digital experiences. Rooted in the idea of designing for encounters, the studio creates thoughtful environments and experiences that connect identity with physical space and shape how people relate to each other and their surroundings. With a core focus on the design of space, Spacon views design as a form of hosting, combining narrative, materiality, and strategy to create contemporary spaces, objects, and environments that invite openness, interaction, and presence.

Close to Heart begins with the strict, precise language of aluminum profiles — architectural, rational, controlled. Yet within this framework, each profile is shaped into a heart. It’s an unexpected detail, small but transformative, turning something structural into a moment of warmth and joy. A whisper of love inside an ordered system. The chair explores structure as an emotional language, finding the balance between heart and mind, between body and thought.

The chair is released in a limited edition of 150 numbered pieces to mark Muuto’s 20th anniversary. Crafted in Denmark from extruded aluminum by Hydro, a leading aluminum company.

“Close to Heart Chair is conceived with love. Translating something deeply intuitive into a precise design language. The heart is universally recognizable—playful and a bit naïve. The brain reads the form as care and safety, creating openness before analysis begins. Embedding that symbol within a precise aluminum system creates a tension between instinct and intelligence, play and precision.”