Seating technology may have reached its peak for those of us who struggle to keep our lightly worn clothing piles away from furniture. The Laundry Chair — developed by YouTuber and viral inventor Simone Giertz — is now available to buy through a Kickstarter campaign, providing a storage solution that still functions as a usable seat when it’s covered in clothes that are too clean to wash, but too dirty to put away.
This chair gives half-worn clothes a home
Part seat, part swivelling storage solution for that laundry pile you’ve been ignoring.
Part seat, part swivelling storage solution for that laundry pile you’ve been ignoring.
The $1100 Laundry Chair includes a rotating rail that can swivel around the seat on a ball-bearing Lazy Susan, allowing laundry to be slung over it without covering the armrests or seating pad. The chair also features a solid hardwood frame and comes with green cotton corduroy upholstery, with a second color option expected in the future. Discounts of up to $200 are available for early backers of the crowdfunding launch, with deliveries estimated for November 2026.
The project initially started life as a prototype that Giertz built for a YouTube video in 2024 before deciding to bring it to market via her Yetch product brand. “I made the Laundry Chair because I was tired of staring at my pile of half-dirty clothes.” Giertz said in the press release. “So I decided to make a chair that’s actually built for the job.”
The moving rail serves several purposes. It makes it easier to stack clothes and then partially conceal that messy view behind the back of the chair for one, but also allows semi-worn fabric to breathe better than it would in a crumpled pile or stored away, helping to reduce moisture, wrinkles, and smells. Giertz has experimented with other rotating furniture solutions too, like this coffee table that doubles as an ottoman, and has previously launched clothes hangers that fold to fit into shallow spaces on her Yetch webstore.
“No piles. No unusable chairs. No pretending you’ll deal with it later,” the Laundry Chair Kickstarter campaign says. “It’s not really about doing more laundry. Washing clothes after every single wear actually breaks them down faster. Most pieces don’t need a full wash, they just need a bit of air.”
I think the Laundry Chair’s pricetag is reasonable for a piece of bespoke furniture, even if the color options are currently rather limited. Sure, I could invest in a regular clothes rack to address the goblin pile festering by my bedside for far less, but I’ve yet to find one that doesn’t look unsightly. It already feels natural to dump clothing onto a chair, so why bother learning better habits?
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