In addition to plain ol’ beautiful furniture designs, this year we saw a lot of unusual pieces that demonstrated really outside-of-the-box thinking. Here are 21 of our faves.
The Brico series of chairs, by furniture designer Martin Kechayas, are made of offcuts from the production of other chairs.
We think of bamboo as an extraordinarily hard material, but industrial designer Brian Chang figured out a brilliant way to use bamboo to create comfortable, springy seating.
Industrial designer Eva Dugintseva designed Som, an easy-to-assemble 3D printed chair.
These cantilevered Tripod Tables are by Fernweh Woodworking.
Willy Guhl, one of Switzerland’s first industrial designers, created these radical fiber cement Loop Chairs in the 1950s.
These SAI 39 benches, by industrial designer Robin Bourgeois, are made from plywood industrial waste.
Mitten State Woodworks works in an unusual furniture design niche: Behind-the-sofa consoles.
Carpentopod, designed and built by Netherlands-based game developer Giliam de Carpentier, is a coffee table that walks.
This FurnSpin system, by Hettich, features a surprising cabinet mechanism.
