Why Designers Are Suddenly Using Cork for Everything in 2026
As sustainability becomes a key focus in design, architecture, and product development, natural materials are gaining renewed attention. Among these materials, cork stands out as…
Furniture
The Modular Chair That Lets You Swap Parts Like a Building
Most furniture asks one question at the point of purchase: do you like it enough to live with it, possibly forever? Junha Kahm’s Facade modular…
Most Active Stools Just Wobble, but This One Runs on Skateboard Trucks
The active sitting market has been trying to solve the same problem for years by adding instability to an otherwise conventional seat. Balance boards, wobble…
5 Furniture Pieces So Geometric They Could Hang in a Gallery
Geometry has always been the silent language of design. Across architecture and interiors, shapes define how spaces feel, function, and flow. Today, furniture design is…
A Victorian Coffee Table Just Grew Robot Dog Legs
Most furniture sits quietly in a room and asks nothing of you. Alexandre Veillon’s latest piece does the opposite. It crouches. It stares. It makes…
A Console Table With Wooden Pages Built Into Its Surface
Most furniture is designed to stay put. It sits in a corner, holds your lamp, or supports your coffee cup, and asks nothing of you…
These Contemporary Chairs Turn Sustainability and Stillness Into Design
A chair can be a surprisingly effective storytelling device. Give it a different material, soften a familiar silhouette, or borrow a gesture from somewhere unexpected,…
4 Ancient Japanese Crafts Reborn as Furniture You Can Actually Own
Japan has always had a complicated relationship with the new. On one hand, the country gave us bullet trains, robot hotels, and vending machines that…
The No-Drill Plywood Shelf System Every Renter Has Been Waiting For
Most shelves come with a decision baked into their design: find a wall, drill some holes, and commit to a location that will outlast most…
This Cork Cactus Looks Like Decor and Acts Like 3 Pieces of Furniture
Coat stands have always occupied an awkward position in a room. They’re functional enough to keep around but rarely considered anything beyond a place to…
Furniture Made From Wood Scraps You’d Actually Pay For
Every furniture workshop generates a particular kind of guilt. There are the offcuts, the trimmings, the odd-shaped remainders of boards that got cut to size…
Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair
Luxury furniture has long borrowed the language of high-performance design without much of the substance behind it. Carbon fiber panels get applied as surface decoration,…