Press enter or click to view image in full size A collage of Bad Bunny with the Monobloc chair by Francesco Maria Furno

Product DesignBad BunnyDesignMusicPuerto Rico How Bad Bunny Turned the World’s Cheapest Chair Into a Pop Icon

No one paid any attention to the Monobloc until Bad Bunny came along to dignify the most common chair in the world. A piece of white plastic that has filled our everyday spaces since the day it was born, with its bland, anodyne spirit.

Francesco Maria Furno

6 min readSep 20, 2026

The Monobloc is the commercial product par excellence for resting our backsides. Cheap, easy to stack, transport, and replace, and pretty sturdy for the price it sells at. After the Puerto Rican artist’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it’s not only one of the best-selling objects but one of the most used in creative work. Not even Andy Warhol could have taken the Monobloc this far. A piece created in 1967 by an Italian designer after a whole string of assorted inspirations, going from ugly duckling to swan.…