Not every furniture piece will make it to the MoMA, and we always enjoy seeing the surprising, experimental swings that some designers are willing to take. Here are the pieces we saw this year that did things differently (for better or worse, you be the judge).
French furniture brand Maximum, whose raw material is municipal waste, creates this Bultan seating from discarded crowd control barriers.
NYC-based industrial designer Nik Bentel’s Loopy Chair was inspired by city bike racks.
German industrial designer Friedrich Gerlach makes these self-supporting Lecrase stools out of leather offcuts.
Dutch furnituremaker DM Living built this contraption to make it easier to finish the undersides of their tabletops.
Belgian designer Peter Donders continues to astonish, with his Spherene Side Table. The piece was built to demonstrate the role that advanced computational modeling can have in material optimizationd.
This Bubble Stool is by Chinese design firm Studio Ololoo. It features a captured, inflated seat that you might miss at first glance.
British designer Paul Cocksedge’s three-foot-tall Marble Bookmark, on the other hand, is impossible to miss.
Another British industrial designer, Sebastian Bergne, has upgraded the humble studio applebox into a furniture-grade object called Bevel.
Konstantin Grcic tackles casual seating with his THING_01.
Maybe not technically furniture? This window-mounted object invites birds into your home.
Furniture designer Aidan Reinhold’s aluminum FoldSeat fits into a FedEx box.
Canadian company Bateman Labs’ nifty Encore is a mid-century style chair with a magnetically-attachable worksurface, turning it into a stylish desk.
Hungarian industrial design firm Flying Objects plans to produce this F1 cockpit gaming chair.
New-Zealand-based design studio George & Willy developed these removable café tables.
Bene’s PIXEL line, by Austrian architect Didi Lenz, is modular milk-crate-like furniture for working adults.
From Australia, artist/designer Elliat Rich has a wildly different take on cabinetry.
Industrial designer George Davies’ brake-formed furniture.
Istanbul-baesd Studio Lugo’s Anachron Series: Agriculture-inspired furniture, with traces of Rietveld, the Bauhaus, Memphis and ’80s Postmodernism.
Lastly, Portugese furniture designer Victor Manuel’s “Geometric Chimera” style of furniture design is mid-century-modern-plus.
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