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Fashion trends may have largely fixated on the early aughts this past year, but when it came to furniture, we’re still stuck on creations with much earlier origins. This is readily apparent when watching music videos of 2022—no matter what dimension or version of reality they’re set in, iconic furniture designed throughout the 20th century caught our eyes. From Charli XCX’s Eames desk chair to Cate Le Bon’s Le Corbusier sling chair, find our favorite music video furniture moments below. 

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Eero Saarinen’s designs have been employed to conjure a vision of a far out future for decades, so it’s only fitting that Doja Cat would use his Tulip Chair (1956) in furnishing her chic spaceship. The Valentino pink and white space contrast the mud-colored enemy spaceship she invades. 

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In the music video for “Used To Know Me,” Charli XCX sweeps across time periods and contexts—from an ’80s aerobics video set to a vision of the pop star as Marie Antoinette. Naturally for such a timeless design, in the “real world” set, an Eames Aluminum Group Chair offers a place for her pal to sit. 

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The set of Post Malone and Roddy Ricch’s “Cooped Up” music video is stuffed to the gills with interesting modernist pieces, as we covered in depth earlier this year. There are plenty of identifiable pieces in the video, but our favorite has to be the Kay LeRoy Ruggles Umbo shelf. 

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One of the only notable 21st century designs we spotted in 2022 music videos was in Aespa’s video for “Life’s Too Short.” Though it’s just a brief appearance, we were glad to see Gustaf Westman’s Curvy Mirror pop up. 

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Tinashe pays $5 to peek into a crystal ball and see her future in the music video for “X / I Can See the Future.” What does she find? Herself, some backup dancers, and Wendell Castle’s Molar Chair on a circular platform. 

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In the video for “No One Dies From Love”, Tove Lo’s character falls in love with a shiny mail-order robot. Appropriately for someone with such a modern love interest, her house is a space-age delight. Naturally, she has what is arguably the defining example of ’60s futurist design: a Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio.

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Perhaps the most dependably spottable design of the 20th century is the Cesca chair by Marcel Breuer, which appears the moment Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” music video begins. We also noticed it in the video for Kendrick Lamar’s “We Cry Together.”

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The bright white backdrop of Liv.e’s “Wild Animals” video makes the chic furniture that occupies the set pop even more than it would in a regular space. On the left side, Brian Kane’s Rubber Arm Chairs surround a table. 

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Camilla Cabello and Willow’s “psychofreak” music video takes place entirely in one room. This This spare but colorful space imagines what a drab office would look like if it were redesigned by a devout postmodernist. It’s still dominated by those pesky fluorescent lights, sure, but we’d pick its bright green walls and red and black accents over gray anyway. What stands out in particular is the George Sonneman for Kovacs lamp that sits atop the space’s desk.

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It’s no secret that Pulitzer Prize–winning rapper Kendrick Lamar has an eye for good design—he filmed the music video for “N95” at two Forth Worth, Texas, cultural hot spots—and “Rich Spirit” is no exception. Contained in a minimal home with the curtains drawn for most of the video, a Dórica floor lamp by Jordi Miralbell and Mariona Raventós adds a soft light to the space. 

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The simple elegance of Le Corbusier’s LC1 chair is the perfect contrast against Cate Le Bon’s billowing bright outfits, accessories, and makeup in the music video for “Remembering Me.”

By María Noval-Quílez

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