The CARGO sofa by Mizetto was conceived as a shifting seating system designed not to hold a single fixed form, but to change depending on how it’s occupied. According to co-owner Richard Muskala, its identity is constantly negotiated through use.
That quality becomes clear in the way people interact with it. Instead of sitting in a conventional, predictable orientation, users lean into its edges, turn across its surfaces, and reconfigure how they occupy it so that sitting becomes about movement within a structure.
“We noticed that it almost worked as a social gathering tool,” says Richard. “People interact with it in different ways than a regular sofa. Some used the backrest as a leaning point, some as an armrest, and some half-sat on it. That also changed how people interacted with each other.”
CARGO’s modular logic allows it to shift between configurations, adapting to different spatial conditions. Photo by Jonas Lindstrom
The sofa is built around that openness. Its modular logic allows it to shift between configurations, adapting to different spatial conditions. The object behaves more like a system than a static piece of furniture. This sense of adaptability continues in the details, including a strap system that can be produced in matching upholstery or in jacquard webbing, adding a subtle layer of identity without altering the structure itself.
“We were immediately in love with the concept,” Richard says. “A modular sofa had been a dream for years, but we wanted it to be different from everything else out there.”
In different environments, the piece continues to behave differently. It moves between hospitality, office, and residential settings, and in each context it produces new patterns of use, shaped as much by the space around it as by its own configuration.
When it was first displayed in a showroom setting, this became especially visible. Visitors didn’t approach CARGO as a traditional sofa but instead as something to enter and explore, sitting in unexpected positions and using its surfaces in multiple directions at once, turning it into a shared structure rather than a fixed object.
