• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
Contemporary Design News

Contemporary Design News

News of Contemporary Design, Architecture and Interiors

  • DESIGN
  • ARCHITECTURE
  • EVENTS

Furniture

News of contemporary, modern furniture including works around the world by both leading and emerging designers

Piatto table fucina design
Design | Furniture

Piatto Table by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin

The Piatto tables are designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of London based studio Industrial Facility. They are part of the Digest Collection which aims to explore a formal and visual lightness in metal furniture, as opposed to the heavy industrial effect that metal objects tend to have. The family of Piatto tables are made of solid steel plate, however they appear to be light. Fucina Design

MORE
tenon table fromtheland
Design | Furniture

From the Land Studio Tenon Table

From the Land is a multi disciplinary studio formed by textile designer Kezia Regan and architect Alastair Mitchell. The practice aims to represent geological identity through concrete and their creation the Tenon Table consists of two hand made parts made from concrete with raw materials sourced from the UK's rich strata.  From the Land

MORE
cappellini revolving cabinet 1970
Design | Furniture

Shiro Kuramata Cappellini Revolving Cabinet

Shiro Kuramata designed the Revolving Cabinet in 1970 for Cappellini. The chest of drawer comprises 20 drawer in red polished acrylic, and revolves around a vertical metal support. Cappellini was founded in 1946 by Enrico Cappellini in the Brianza region, north of Milan, Italy. Cappellini

MORE
salone del mobile milano 2018
Events | Exhibitions | Furniture

Salone Del Mobile Milano 2018

14 April - 22 April 2018.

Salone Del Mobile Milano, in 2018, features more than 205,000 sq m of exhibition space and over 2,000 exhibitors. The 57th Milan Furniture Fair also hosts  Euro Cucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition. Salone del Mobile

MORE
raw edges and shay alkalay stack drawer
Design | Furniture

Raw Edges and Shay Alkalay Stack Drawers

Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer set up design studio Raw Edges in London after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Their creation Stack is a drawer unit consisting of individual multicoloured 'floating' drawer units that form a sculptural irregular object. Established & Sons

MORE
naoto fukasawa 130 chair thonet
Design | Furniture

Naoto Fukasawa 130 Chair

Naoto Fukasawa designed the solid wood 130 chair for Thonet in 2010. The frame is made from solid wood and the backrest  in moulded plywood with or without upholstery. Thonet

MORE
brdr kruger david thulstrup arv chair
Design | Furniture

David Thulstrup ARV Chair for Noma

The head chef and founder of Noma, René Redzepi, commissioned Studio David Thulstrup to create the ARV Chair. The design of the chain draws from Danish tradition but has a contemporary and timeless quality. The chair is manufactured by Brde. Kruger, a firm that was founded in Copenhagen as a woodturning company and dates back to 1886. Brdr Kruger

MORE
os and oos matrix bench
Art | Design | Furniture | Objects

OS and OOS Matrix Bench

Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen of OS and OOS designed the Matrix Bench as part of the Matix project. The project aims to create a system with endless configurations using a grid structure that changes from being almost transparent to solid depending on the perspective. Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen work from Eidenhover in the Netherlands and created OS and OOs in 2011. OS and OOS

MORE
AC-AL trame chair
Design | Furniture

AC/AL Studio Trame Chair

The Trame chair for both inside and exterior use is designed by Amandine Chhor and Aïssa Logerot for Petite Friture. The chair is manufactured from steel and epoxy coated. Petite Friture

MORE
max lamb plank table for benchmark
Design | Furniture

Max Lamb Plank Furniture

The roots of Max Lamb's Plank furniture lies in the carpenters workbench. The wide planks of oak and Douglas Fir preserve the uninterrupted wood grain in the furniture and also demonstrate the impressive scale of the tree. Benchmark

MORE
melt book case thomas sandell marsotto
Design | Furniture | Objects

Thomas Sandell Melt Bookcase

The Melt Bookcase in matt finished white Carrara marble is designed by the architect Thomas Sandell for the Verona based stone workers Marsotto. Thomas Sandell founded the architecture and design practice Sandellsandberg in Sweden. Marsotto

MORE
pearson lloyd ammermuir chair
Design | Furniture

Pearson Lloyd Famiglia Seating

Pearson Lloyd designed the Famigila range of seating for Allermuir in 2016. Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd created the design studio over 20 years ago in Shoreditch, East London. Allermuir

MORE
heatherwick studio friction table
Design | Furniture | Objects

Heatherwick Studio Friction Table

Launched at the Daniel Katz Gallery the Friction Table is designed by Heatherwick Studio. The Friction Table uses a pivot mechanism and a lattice structure to stretch from a 1.8m diameter table to an elliptical form that is over 4m long. Heatherwick Studio

MORE
gianfranco frattini bottega ghianda kyoto
Furniture

Gianfranco Frattini Kyoto Table

The Kyoto table is designed by Gianfranco Frattini, now manufactured by Poltrona Frau and consists of beech wood slats joined at 45 degrees to form 1,705 joints and 1,600 holes. Gianfranco Frattini worked with his mentor Gio Ponti and subsequently started his own practice in Milan in 1954. Gianfranco Frattini

MORE
Arne Jacobsen lala Berlin Republic of Fritz Hansen grand prix chair
Design | Furniture | Interiors

Arne Jacobsen leyla piedayesh Series 7™ Velvet Chair

Arne Jacobsen's Series 7™ chair is the subject of a collaboration between Fritz Hansen and Leyla Piedayesh's Lala Berlin fashion brand. Bold colours and velvets adorn the Series 7 chairs.  Fritz Hansen

MORE
muller vam severen s lounge chair
Design | Furniture | Interiors | Objects

Muller van severen wire s# lounge chair

The wire s# lounge chair is part of a furniture collection designed by artists Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen. The collection sits been art and furniture, and the wire s# lounge chair is manufactured in powder coated stainless steel. Muller van Severen

MORE
mja table lamp by jacques adnet
Design | Furniture | Interiors | Lighting | Objects

Jacques Adnet MJA Table Lamp

The MJA table lamp was designed in 1930 by Jacques Adnet. Jacques Adnet  was a great exponent of French Modernism. MJA, Memory of Jacques Adnet, has been in production since 2005, prior to which it was only a prototype. The lamp is made of brass with a Palladium finish. Lumen Center Italia

MORE
jean nouvel lessless table for molteni & c
Design | Furniture

Jean Nouvel LessLess Table

LessLess is a complete range of tables, rectangular and square, painted in different colours. An aluminum table the strength of which lies in a play on corners and folds. The external outline of the horizontal table top is very thin and stiff and it is obtained by bending the aluminum sheet along inclined planes. Designed by Jean Nouvel, originally for the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the LessLess tables are a result of his approach to design which comes from a need to create objects for his architectures. Molteni & C

MORE
charles pollock cp1 bernhardt
Design | Furniture

Charles Pollock cp1 for Bernhardt Design

Lounge Seating designed by Charles Pollock for Bernhardt Design. Charles Pollock's designs were governed by two principles. Creatively, he favored a continuous curved line when sketching ideas and creating forms. The second principle was that any product must be visually attractive, functional, and affordable. In 2012, the 82-year-old Pollock introduced his first new product in America since the debut of his iconic Pollock Chair forty-seven years earlier. Pollock’s new collection CP Lounge was commissioned by Bernhardt Design.  Bernhard Design

MORE
Piero Lissoni Commodore Storage Unit
Design | Furniture

Piero Lissoni Commodore Storage Unit

Storage Unit design by Piero Lissoni for Glas Italia.  Storage furniture in striped or checked printed glass, tempered and glued 45°, with silvered base. The sliding doors run in transparent plexiglass tracks, whilst the slender legs are in glossy chromium-plated metal. Supplied with 8 mm thick tempered extralight glass shelves. Glas Italia.

MORE
devol sebastian cox kitchen
Design | Furniture

deVOL Sebastian Cox Kitchen

This kitchen is a collaboration between Sebastian Cox and deVOL. Using only sustainable timbers, which have all been grown in England, with Birch plywood carcases, doors made from sustainable timbers such as Beech and Ash and the incorporation of beautiful and delicate woven panels, deVOL and Sebastian Cox have created a beautiful kitchen using timbers which are very often overlooked. deVOL

MORE
Karl Malmvall step ladder
Accessories | Design | Furniture

Karl Malmvall STEP LADDER

Karl Malmvall has designed a step ladder beautiful enough to be placed on the wall as a piece of decoration, rather than to be stoved away in a dark closet. There is even a small hook included for the purpose, so that it always can be within reach. Soild beech (lacquered) or oak. Design House Stockholm

MORE
Design | Furniture

Aggestrup #80 Modular Sofa

Aggestrup #80 is a modular sofa. The #80 black was Camilla Aggestrup's first edition, and the next edition is called the white edition, as an opposite. The mission is to create products that attract awareness towards moments in life and the human body itself. The sofa provides comfort, privacy and flexibility but still keeps the simple aesthetic values that are well-known from the Danish Design tradition. All products are handcrafted and produced in Denmark. Aggestrup

MORE
klausesr & carpenter utility chair
Design | Furniture

Klauser and Carpenter utility chair

Commissioned by Canteen for their group of restaurants. This design can be seen as an evolution of the once ubiquitous post-war Utility Chair, still a familiar sight in the UK today. Klaus & Carpenter managed to reduce the chair to three main components. The powder-coated frame is made from one continuous piece of bent tube. Hidden fixings join it neatly to the plywood seat and back. Along the way they subtly updated the look of the classic archetype. The result is light weight, stackable and versatile: the Canteen Utility Chair. 2009. VG&P

MORE
pinch design yoyce cabinet
Design | Furniture

Pinch Design Joyce Glass Fronted Cabinet

The Joyce cabinet has sliding glass-fronted doors and a timber-lined interior with four adjustable shelves and four drawers. There are 2 cable grommets above the drawers. Pinch is the collaboration between husband and wife team Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon and is run from their studio/ showroom in Clapham, London. Pinch Design.

MORE
String_2014_Pocket_gron
Design | Furniture

Nils Strinning String Shelving

Certain things become so strongly associated with an era that they become timeless. This is certainly true of Nils Strinning’s shelf system, string®, which was designed in 1949. It may seem strange that something as simple and humble as this little dainty light shelf with its thin side panels has become one of the twentieth century’s foremost design icons.  String.

MORE
george Nakashima straight chair knoll
Design | Furniture

George Nakashima Straight Chair

The Straight Chair is George Nakashima's modern interpretation of the traditional Windsor chair. Originally designed in 1946 and reintroduced by KnollStudio in 2008 in collaboration with George Nakashima’s daughter, Mira. Using three-dimensional scanning software, the Knoll Development Group created an exact replica of the handmade original. Knoll

MORE
CH24_black_natural_env
Design | Furniture

Hans Wegner CH24 Wishbone Chair

Hans J. Wegner designed the Wishbone chair for Carl Hansen & Søn in 1949 and it has been in continuous production since 1950. Despite the chair's straightforward appearance it takes more than 100 steps to make one and the hand woven seat consists of more than 120 meters of paper cord. Carl Hansen opened his furniture workshop in Odense, Denmark in 1908 and still manufacture in a modern factory just outside Odense. Carl Hansen

MORE
mies barcelona couch
Design | Furniture

Mies van der rohe Barcelona couch

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was selected to design the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Inside, Mies included chairs and stools for the King and Queen of Spain. Designed in 1930, the Barcelona Couch shares the same simple elegance as the iconic lounge chair. Mies granted Knoll the production rights to the Chair and Stool in 1953. Knoll was formed in 1938 by Hans Knoll in New York. Knoll

MORE
Eames Aluminium Chair EA 105 - EA 106 vitra
Design | Furniture

Eames Aluminium Group Chair

Charles and Ray Eames, the American designers who have made significant contributions to modern architecture and furniture,  conceived and developed the Aluminium Chair in 1958 for the private residence of an art collector in Columbus, Indiana (USA). The chair is constructed by stretching fabric or leather between two aluminium side members create a taut but elastic seat. This is in contrast to the seat shell. The chair adapts to the body of the sitter and is comfortable, even without elaborate upholstery. Vitra

MORE
.03 maarten van severed chair
Design | Furniture

Maarten Van Severen .03 Chair

Maarten van Severen studied architecture at the Art Academy in Ghent and produced his first furniture in 1986. In 1990 he began a collaboration with the architect Rem Koolhaus and started to concentrate on interiors. The .03 chair is designed to be unobtrusive yet comfortable and is made of  resilient polyurethane integral foam. The chair is designed to respond to the body by flexing. Maarten's collaboration with the family owned Swiss manufacturer Vitra commenced in 1996. Vitra

MORE
barber osgerby home table isokon plus
Design | Furniture | Retail

Barber Osgerby Home Table

Designed for their own home and their clients, the Home Table in oak was Barber Osgerby's first project using solid wood. Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded their studio in 1996 and much of their work has involved folding sheet material. Isokon Plus manufacture the Home Table and was  founded in the 1930s and continues create contemporary furniture and is based in Hackney Wick, London. Isokon Plus, Barber Osgerby

MORE
vitsoe shelving
CLASSIC | Design | Furniture | Interiors

Dieter Rams 606 Universal Shelving System by Vitsoe

The Vitsoe 606 Universal Shelving System was designed by Dieter Rams in 1960. Based on a system of an aluminium E-track and a pin, with all shelves, cabinets and table hung from the E-track. The system is designed so that you take it with you when you move. In 1959 Niels Vitsoe formed Vitsoe to create the furniture designed by Dieter Rams. Vitsoe

MORE

contemporarydesignnews

Copyright © 2025 · Contemporary Design News · All Rights Reserved · Privacy / Cookie Policy / Terms and Conditions · About

Manage your privacy

To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site and show (non-) personalized ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Click below to consent to the above or make granular choices. Your choices will be applied to this site only. You can change your settings at any time, including withdrawing your consent, by using the toggles on the Cookie Policy, or by clicking on the manage consent button at the bottom of the screen.

Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Manage options
{title} {title} {title}
Manage your privacy
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Manage options
{title} {title} {title}