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The Iceberg Sofa draws attention to melting glaciers

Fnji, a design brand based in China, is using its platform to raise awareness for global warming, specifically...

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Designer Woojai Lee recycles newspaper into "marbled" furniture

Paper is among the most produced and discarded materials in the world. It can be recycled, but through each cycle...

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Spiral Stool is a sturdy flat-pack stool made from 100% recyclable cardboard

Cardboard might not seem like a sturdy material to build furniture with, let alone an attractive option, but Taipei-based...

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Dutch designer upcycles abandoned shopping carts into luxury sofas and chairs

Dutch designer Etiënne Reijnders has taken it upon himself to turn abandoned, run-down shopping carts into elegant...

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Learn how to make a modern Bow Spring Chair from a Harvard grad

Fascinated by the design process? Conor Coghlan, a recent architectural graduate from the Harvard Graduate School...

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Brilliant tube chair warms you up just like a hot water bottle

The thought-provoking chair made a splash at the 2016 Milan Design Fair’s Dutch Design Pavilion held at Palazzo...

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Incredible Lift-bit sofa digitally transforms into any shape you want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kyre06-WrM Creativity is encouraged for owners of the Lift-bit furniture system...

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Counterpoise is an elegantly balanced plywood chair

Counterpoise is a plywood chair whose shape embodies the idea of interplay: it is comprised of two wooden parts...

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Flat-pack Electron Chair is CNC-milled from beech plywood for zero waste

LOCK Furniture’s Konstantin Achkov has designed the New Electron Chair, that’s part sculpture, part interlocking...

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MVRDV's Colorful 'Vertical Village' Furnishings are Shaped Like Houses

Architects at MVRDV teamed up with the Belgian furniture label sixinch to design colorful furniture pieces that...

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Thonet's VouwWow VW01 is a Flat Pack Recycled Honeycomb Cardboard Chair

Respecting Michelle Thonet's original idea of furniture that could easily be disassembled for optimizing space...

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