The Barnacle Chair by designer Ania Wagner

Blending sustainability and stylish design together, the Barnacle Chair, designed by Ania Wagner is made from sustainable wood and lined with a cultivated industrial felt. This chair allows the user to sit in it, similar to bucket seating or flip it over and multiple users can lean against it while seated on the floor. Measuring 30×40×23”, the Barnacle Chair is a modern, green and functional design. The Barnacle Chair is not just displays ae…

Ostrea Sofa by Annika Göransson

This beautiful comfortable sofa design is created by Annika Göransson, a 26 year old Swedish design student at the Danish Design School who has won a competition from the Upholstery Guild in Copenhagen, with these Comfortable Ostrea Sofa. This ostrea sofa is a two-seats sofa designed for the public space and was inspired by the 19th century’s bombastic divans and armchairs, which were richly decorated with tassels, fringes and drapes. The constru…

The Knit Chair by Emiliano Godoy

This Knit Chair is designed by Emiliano Godoy and manufactured by pirwi is made from thin wood panels and cotton rope. It has won a Bronze Leaf at the International Furniture Design Award in Asahikawa, Japan in 2005. The materials and construction blend the common, cotton rope, with high tech, aircraft plywood, in such a way as to be startlingly intuitive. The interesting point is that small wood pieces are held together with strings, and it is p…

Bag Stools by Gitta Gschwendtner

This interesting Bag Stools created by designer Gitta Gschwendtner. The designer has created woodcrete stools cast from moulds based on paper shopping bag commissioned for the Design Museum Tank. Design Museum and Time Out have commissioned Gitta Gschwendtner to investigate the tangible link between design and the city in an installation for the Design Museum Tank exploring the theme “Consume”. Referencing material consumption, Gitta Gschwendtner…

The i2i Chair by IDEO and Steelcase

The i2i seat is part of a collaborative seating system designed by IDEO for Steelcase. To be launched in the spring of 2009, the bucket-like seating was designed specifically to foster collaboration and was based on three key insights: 1. Chairs should promote movement and be comfortable for long periods of time 2. Adjustments should be automatic and intuitive 3. Chairs should support multiple postures The i2i chair earned Cradle to CradleCM Silv…