In order to make people think about the pervasiveness of industrial waste, Chinese designer Jamy Yang created the above Jiujie Chair for American furniture maker Steelcase. Yang invented the eco-plastic used in the chair in 2010, and with it wove a sort of nest around the frame of the chair — which when you sit […]

Typography has become this year’s anthem to good design, and Mark Lauckhardt has found yet another way to incorporate it with something usually unrelated to typeface: furniture design. Lauckhardt has created a line that consists of a lamps, tables, chairs and couches all replicating different letters in the alphabet. The clean lines and modern design […]

In the age of Craigslist and eBay, when I hear the terms “interactive” and “past, present, and future users” associated with a chair, I immediately think it’s creative advertising for a used piece of junk. That was before I was introduced to David Lee’s interactive Continual Chair. Lee’s vision is to transform this ‘common object […]

Creator Javier Alejandre was influenced by old black and white Sci-Fi movies when he designed the Oddbod — a chair meant to resemble a UFO invading a 1950’s American city. A whimsical “organic design” made of rotomoulded PET and pine legs, Alejandre formally works with a children’s video game company — you can no doubt […]

Remember how we talked about the unavoidable oncoming marketing onslaught of TRON-licensed products, and how most of them would probably be pretty stupid? Is that where this TRON armchair fits in? “Somewhere between imagination and reality” is what Cappellini designs strive for, and that’s what they’re aiming for with this latest addition to their family. […]

Inspired by a traditional tea whisk used in Japanese culture, Hiroki Takada‘s Tea Ceremony Chair will be presented in Tokyo’s designer week. The piece is entirely constructed of bamboo and resembles the shape that of something simple and overlooked in most Japanese households, yet the intricate shape is inspiring: split bamboo that is cut into […]

Just can’t make up your mind on what kind of seating arrangements are best for you? Well there’s no need for fretting my friend. Karolina Tylka and Szymon Nawój have collaborated with BEYOND Standards to create this morphing coffee bench. What exactly is a coffee bench, you ask? Well it’s a movable bench consisting of […]

How to create the ultimate comfort? One part armchair and one part sleeping bag equals total Cocoon Armchair. Pretty self-explanatory, the Cocoon Armchair — designed by Luxembourg-based design company Superette — is truly the one thing missing from your apartment. With soft comfortable lining, you can lay down and zip up the duvet-like cocoon for […]