diff --git a/src/editor/FigureView.tsx b/src/editor/FigureView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b99ac58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/editor/FigureView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { NodeViewWrapper, type NodeViewProps } from "@tiptap/react";
+
+const PLACEMENTS = [
+  { key: "inline", label: "Inline" },
+  { key: "full-width", label: "Full width" },
+  { key: "full-page", label: "Full page" },
+  { key: "float-top", label: "Float" },
+];
+
+export function FigureView({ node, updateAttributes, selected }: NodeViewProps) {
+  const { src, alt, caption, placement } = node.attrs;
+
+  return (
+    <NodeViewWrapper className="figure" data-placement={placement} data-selected={selected} contentEditable={false}>
+      <div className="figure-frame">
+        {src ? <img src={src} alt={alt} /> : <div className="figure-empty">No image</div>}
+      </div>
+      <input
+        className="figure-caption"
+        value={caption}
+        placeholder="Add a caption…"
+        onChange={(e) => updateAttributes({ caption: e.target.value })}
+      />
+      {selected && (
+        <div className="figure-controls">
+          {PLACEMENTS.map((p) => (
+            <button key={p.key} data-on={placement === p.key} onClick={() => updateAttributes({ placement: p.key })}>
+              {p.label}
+            </button>
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </NodeViewWrapper>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/editor/extensions.ts b/src/editor/extensions.ts
index e395b92..a2201ad 100644
--- a/src/editor/extensions.ts
+++ b/src/editor/extensions.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 import type { Extensions } from "@tiptap/core";
 import StarterKit from "@tiptap/starter-kit";
 import Placeholder from "@tiptap/extension-placeholder";
+import { Figure } from "./figure";
 
 export const editorExtensions: Extensions = [
   StarterKit.configure({
     heading: { levels: [2, 3] },
     codeBlock: false,
   }),
-  Placeholder.configure({ placeholder: "Begin your chapter…" }),
+  Placeholder.configure({
+    placeholder: ({ node }) => (node.type.name === "heading" ? "" : "Begin your chapter…"),
+  }),
+  Figure,
 ];
diff --git a/src/editor/figure.ts b/src/editor/figure.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cceca77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/editor/figure.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { Node, mergeAttributes } from "@tiptap/core";
+import { ReactNodeViewRenderer } from "@tiptap/react";
+import { FigureView } from "./FigureView";
+
+export const Figure = Node.create({
+  name: "figure",
+  group: "block",
+  atom: true,
+  draggable: true,
+  selectable: true,
+
+  addAttributes() {
+    return {
+      src: { default: "" },
+      alt: { default: "" },
+      caption: { default: "" },
+      placement: { default: "full-width" },
+    };
+  },
+
+  parseHTML() {
+    return [{ tag: "figure[data-figure]" }];
+  },
+
+  renderHTML({ HTMLAttributes }) {
+    const { src, alt, caption, placement } = HTMLAttributes;
+    return [
+      "figure",
+      mergeAttributes({ "data-figure": "", "data-placement": placement }),
+      ["img", { src, alt }],
+      ["figcaption", {}, caption ?? ""],
+    ];
+  },
+
+  addNodeView() {
+    return ReactNodeViewRenderer(FigureView);
+  },
+});