Parra’s artwork is usually presented in 2D mode, but seeing his super-fat style manifested into 3D format — especially for something as usually mundane as a coffeetable — is rad. The Dutch artist collaborated with the Belgium-based Toykyo for this limited edition furniture, called The Fly New Coffee Table. The Botero-like feet are common for […]

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 […]

Robert Bronwasser for Cascando Designs has made a small furniture collection to transport a little bit of the outdoors into your drab beige cubicle hell. His modern designs, inspired by nature and the organic shapes found in the wild, include a coat rack imitating a tree, with branches covered in pegs to hang your winter […]

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. […]

Simply put, the Cham furniture collection by KAMKAM is children’s furniture for adults. Located in Korea, KAMKAM is a design consortium consisting of three main designers: Hyunjin Seo, Jaekyoung Kim and Jaehoon Jung. The concept behind this collection was to design furniture for adults that retained the playfulness of kid’s furniture — combining the functionality […]

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 […]