1 – Impasto by Nikolaj Steenfatt
Copenhagen designer Nikolaj Steenfatt created a range of pendant lights, chairs and stools made from coffee granules, sawdust and animal glues. This innovative design chairs were created by Steenfatt from a biodegradable composite which he calls Impasto. This material results from a painting technique using thick layers of paint.
2 – Prisma chair by Alexander Lotersztain
These angular lounge chairs and ottomans by Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain can be tessellated in an endless array of shapes and patterns.
Created for Lotersztain’s contemporary furniture and lighting brand Derlot Editions, each Prisma seat has an angular asymmetric form so they can be clustered together.
3 – Emporium chair by Boca do Lobo
Entirely self-taught, Marco Costa finds inspiration in the Surrealist movement. Beyond the furniture and its primary function, our head designer pushes the object to new levels and blurs the boundaries.He has conceived this exclusive piece by questioning the notion of space, experimenting with material, and playing with color. Emporium is a chair made in aluminum with a particular detail: it only has three legs!
A sense of fun and frivolity pervades this chair, but this exclusive piece also manages to be sophisticated, thought provoking and (above all) finely handcrafted.
Perhaps Marco dares to create a design piece so eloquently because the focus of his approach is to explore the fragility of our humanity by revealing the beauty in imperfection. Marco felt it was about time to design a piece that made justice to the weakness that humankind is experiencing today.
4 – Candy chair by Jeong Yong
South Korean design student Jeong Yong has created a prototype armchair with round balls on each arm and leg. “I wanted to make a chair that is sweet and cute,” Jeong Yong told Dezeen. “Candy chair is a simple design with circular points.”
Candy is available directly from him and comes in a range of “candy-like” colours including orange, blue and yellow.
5 – Mycelium Chair by Eric Klarenbeek
Product designer Eric Klarenbeek has 3D-printed a chair using living fungus, which then grows inside the structure to give it strength. The chair is the result of a collaboration between Klarenbeek and scientists at the University of Wageningen to develop a new way of printing with living organisms. “Our main purpose was to bring together the machine and nature to create a new material that could be used to make any product,” Klarenbeek explained.
The result is a new material that, Klarenbeek believes, could be used to make almost anything in future. “It could be a table, a whole interior or even a house,” he said. “We could build a house with it.”
6 -Solid C2 chair by Patrick Jouin
Created in 2004 by French designer Patrick Jouin in collaboration with digital manufacturers MGX by Materialise, the Solid C2 chair was made from intersecting ribbons of material that ignored furniture-making traditions in favour of the freeform shapes that 3D printing allows.
“The Solid chair was the first furniture piece made with the SLS [selective laser sintering] technique in one piece,” says the museum’s curator of industrial design Ingeborg de Roode. “It clearly shows the possibilities of this technique to make very complicated structures.”
7 – Y Chair by Tom Dixon
Designer Tom Dixon launched a flexible new chair for the contract market during the London Design Festival. It’s made of glass-reinforced nylon and has a faceted back resembling bunny ears.
The one-piece seat and back of Y Chair is made of nylon strengthened with overlapping glass fibres, giving it strength and flexibility. The chair comes in black and white versions with the option of sled, swivel or wooden bases.
