Markus Töll is the founder of SUPERSEDIA, a Vienna-based studio dedicated to the hand manufacture of seating objects. He grew up in his father's metalworking workshop in Bressanone, trained as a metalworker, and went on to study architecture at Vienna's Technical University. The practice brings structural rigour and craft intimacy together in chairs and objects that sit somewhere between furniture, sculpture, and small architecture. Since 2022, SUPERSEDIA has collaborated with Stone Island across more than 20 flagship stores worldwide, and was named in Wallpaper's Future Icons 2026.

What if the most honest thing a chair can do is have no front, no back, no upside, and nothing to hide?

Töll's practice is built on the constant dialogue between an idea and its immediate realisation. He works slowly, plans obsessively, and insists on maki ...