The Basket Bench by an industrial design student Can Onart

This Basket Bench was created by Can Onart, an industrial design student at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 1/4 scale model was inspired by Frank Gehry’s Apple Crate chair design, and is made from aluminum sheets that have been sanded to give a texture similar to steel. See Related Products at Amazon : …

Angel Chair by Pascal Teuling

This unique seating design “Angel Chair” is designed by a third year industrial design student at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Pascal Teuling. The Angel Chair is a design project using materials from Wheels Over Europe. The concept for the chair was “the chair as personal decoration.” Not simply a showpiece for the space, but also for the person in it, the Angel Chair has side wings that function as back le…

New Seating and Lighting Inspiration by nojiberlin

…terials. Concrete steel is upcycled through handmade felt to create vanguard-seating furniture. The SNOW Lounge: The lounger SNOW plays with contradictions and reminds us of snow on a fence. The construction is made of rusty industrial steel, but the cushioning is made of handmade merino wool felt. This creates a symbiosis between an industrial product and handcraft (luxury), combining rigid and soft, light and dark, and reflecting the interest o…

Ice and Snow Furniture by Hongtao Zhou

This cool idea on furniture design is brought to you by Art student Hongtao Zhou from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The designer constructed furniture made from ice and snow on the frozen surface of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, USA. Hongtao Zhou, a University of Wisconsin-Madison art student, is creating the icy furniture on frozen Lake Mendota near the UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace shoreline. Visitors stop to take photos, eating ice cream…

Sofa-Dress by Korean design studio MAEZM

The Sofa-Dress is a cool idea in seating design presented by Korean design studio MAEZM. From the designers: ’sofa-dress’ is a job of space design and a suggestion of furniture design. The act of putting on the clothes of the “sofa” on the existing chair in itself makes the previous object become a little more cushiony furniture and it also can achieve an intention as a unified space with the same cuticles. The ‘sofa-dress’ projects the past obje…