Yet Design Studio turns construction-site aluminium into a full furniture collection
A Istanbul–London studio has expanded its Strut furniture line from a single chair into a three-piece collection, adding a table and a pouf that share the same building-site DNA.
Yet Design Studio, founded by Yağmur Köylü and Lokman Köylü, launched the Strut table and Strut pouf on 3 September 2026, according to Dezeen. Both pieces are made from aluminium angle profiles — the L-shaped extrusions used to frame windows, brace walls and edge stair treads on construction sites — paired with leather.
The Strut table has a sharp-cornered square top measuring 900 by 900 by 750 millimetres, set on rigid legs at each corner. The Strut pouf is smaller at 380 by 450 millimetres, with a circular leather-upholstered seat available in black or white, a drum-like cylindrical body and a base of faceted aluminium profiles. Photography of both pieces is by Kaan Bayoğlu.
Designer Yağmur Köylü told Dezeen that the collection began from a question: can the structural element that carries an object also become the source of its character? The studio's own website describes the Strut Collection as "minimal geometry meets architectural rhythm" that "redefines aluminum with clarity and control."
The new pieces join the Strut chair, a stackable aluminium seat that launched during the 2025 edition of Milan Design Week — the annual Salone del Mobile fair that draws designers, manufacturers and buyers to the Italian city each April. Together the three form a coherent collection, each one exposing the same industrial material as the hero rather than hiding it behind upholstery or veneer.
The Strut chair first appeared in Dezeen's Showroom — a section of the design magazine's website where studios pay to present new products — in April 2025. The table and pouf now occupy the same slot.
What catches the eye here is the economy of the idea. Aluminium angle is cheap, mass-produced and rarely seen outside building sites or hardware aisles. Yet Design Studio cuts it, finishes it and lets it carry the visual weight of furniture you might place in a living room. The leather on the pouf is the only soft material in the entire collection — everything else is rigid, metallic and unapologetically structural.
The studio, which operates in both Istanbul and London, also maintains a separate product range called Off_Grid, described on its website as breaking from rigid frameworks in favour of unexpected geometries. Its shop is organised into four categories — Table, Storage, Seating and Complements — and its website hosts a Projects section cataloguing completed work.
Yet Design Studio's Instagram account announced the Strut Pouf alongside the wider collection, calling it "a study in structure, volume and contrast." The studio's earlier work includes the Twist Stool, a seat designed by Köylü to promote movement and balance, suggesting a consistent thread of furniture that asks the body to engage rather than slump.
For now, the Strut collection stands as three pieces — chair, table, pouf — built from the same humble angle iron, doing different jobs in the same visual language.
