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- Braided Elegance: The Fusion of Craft and Contemporary FurnitureYarn, traditionally associated with spun short fibres, has long been a cornerstone of textiles and crafts. The YYYarn collection, designed by Choi Piljae, Baek…
- Sponge furniture that grows – just add waterResearchers at Swiss design school ECAL designed a series of flat-pack furniture made of a cellulose sponge material, that grows when soaked in water.…
- How to grow your own biodegradable IKEA furnitureIKEA dedicated research and design lab SPACE10’s resident architects Katya Bryskina and Tomás Clavijo explored how the famous IKEA FRAKTA shopping bag might be…
- Inflatable leather furnitureEindhoven-based designer Satomi Minoshima designed leather-covered inflatable furniture to increase their value and thus their lifespan. Inflatable products are light and portable. With only…
- 3D printed furniture made from Belgian plastic wasteBelgian designer Joachim Froment created a furniture collection called Strat, which is made by 3D printing locally collected plastic waste. The collection, which includes…
- Edible furniture for times of crisis at MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019Design studio Lanzavecchia + Wai designed several types of edible furniture, amongst them a table of hard candy that will be on display at…
- MOWO plywood furniture invites you to moveDesigner Lisa Stolz uses the high tensile strength of birch plywood to create furniture that invites the user to move. At the office, at…
- Children’s furniture made from recycled plastic toysThe majority of children’s toys is made from plastic. Plastic is versatile, relatively safe to put in your mouth, and, most importantly perhaps, cheap.…
- Herso: circular furniture and floors from reclaimed woodWood is an amazing material and can be very sustainable, if it has a FSC quality label. However, even though wood is biodegradable, it…
- Tenderwood: wooden furniture with integrated veneer cushionWood is a great material to make furniture, but if you have to sit on a wooden chair or bench for a long time,…
- PaperBricks: bricks and furniture made from old newspapersPaper is one of the most produced and discarded materials in the world. But while it can easily be recycled, it cannot be reused…
- Experimental Furniture And Lighting Showcase Material ResearchEmerging designers increasingly use material experimentation to rethink how furniture, lighting and objects are designed and made. At UKURANT Makes Room, presented during 3daysofdesign…
- Sustainable Furniture from Coffee WasteKorean designer Chanhyeok Kim has developed a furniture series called Unsleepy that utilises coffee waste as a raw material. By combining used coffee grounds…
- Furniture made from recycled polycarbonate wasteDutch company Plasticiet produced recycled plastic sheet material with a marbled, or pearlescent look, which they used to make a series of furniture. Plasticiet…
- Furniture inlaid with shells and feathersWelsh designer Bethan Gray and material company Nature Squared collaborated for the project Exploring Eden, a collection of furniture and accessories inlaid with natural…
- Furniture made from recycled polystyreneDesigner Sam Lander dissolves polystyrene to create pieces of furniture. Polystyrene is a much loved, but also notoriously difficult to recycle packaging material. Inspired…
- Medulla: from weed to furnitureIn a project called Medulla, Dutch designer Don Kwaning developed various materials like paper, foam and even construction material from the cosmopolitan weed soft…
- Sobreiro furniture collection consists almost entirely of corkThe Sobreiro furniture collection, designed by Brazilian design duo Humberto and Fernando Campana, consists of one chair and three cabinets, all made almost entirely…
- Field To Form Turns Undervalued British Wool Into Circular FurnitureBritish designer Sofia Hollier has created Field To Form, a sculptural chair made from Romney wool and linen thread. The project gives a new…
- Bit Stool: Multifunctional Furniture Made From 100% Recycled LDPEThe Bit Stool by Normann Copenhagen shows how recycled plastic waste can become durable and visually striking furniture. Part of the wider Bit collection,…
- DESERT: Computational Design And Hybrid Biobased Materials In Furniture ResearchDESERT is an experimental coffee table by Nyxo in collaboration with Studio Cartier. The project explores how computational design, additive manufacturing, and biobased materials…
- Turning Bark Waste into a Protective Furniture FinishTree bark makes up roughly 10% of the material processed in sawmills, yet most of it ends up as waste. Many manufacturers burn it…
- Coffee Grounds as a Circular Material for Bio-Based FurnitureDesigner Tobias Gerstgrasser has created a stool made entirely from coffee grounds and natural binders. The piece is part of his research project Coffee…
- LOOP: Sculptural Furniture Series Unites Craft, Computation & Circular GeometryThe India-based practice andblack design studio has launched the LOOP series, a collection of sculptural furniture pieces developed through a combination of computational design…
