Furniture

Arm yourself with knowledge before you hit the showroom floor.

Buying furniture has always been a perilous, complex affair. You don’t buy a couch the way you buy a television or a laptop computer. You can’t carry the couch out of the store with you (most of the time). Heck, usually you don’t really have a great idea when the couch will get to your living room.

Like all businesses, the furniture industry is undergoing dramatic changes, thanks ...

Sometimes you’re looking for a very specific item to fit in with your décor, but you just can’t manage to find the perfect piece. Maybe it’s the measurements that are off, or the color just doesn’t work. Whatever the case, what you really want is someone to make exactly what you’re looking for.

French start-up company Drawn wants to help with that. The company is launching its first set of 3D-printed, decorative ...

Sebastian Errazuriz makes “functional sculptures” that often fall more on the sculpture side of function. But he also builds furniture—in his own words, he’s “inviting people to look at one of the simplest forms of furniture design and to forget that we’re talking about furniture”.

The Wave Cabinet is the new creation of his series of functional sculptures, which embody his translation of craftsmanship ...

Janne Kyttanen has designed ‘Sofa So Good’, a 3D printed lattice structure lounger chair, that had been coated in high polish copper and chrome, and weighs only 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms).

Kyttanen was born in Hameenlinna, Finland. He commenced his design ...

A new piece of software promises to give Ikea a run for its money by designing flat-packed furniture that can be assembled without the need for tools, screws, nails, or glue. By slotting the pieces together in a specific order, they securely lock together eliminating the risk of them falling apart.

The software was created by a team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University and works by determining ...

The Float Collection by RPR is a matrix of "magnetized" wooden cubes that levitate with respect to one another. The repelling cubes are held in equilibrium by a system of tensile steel cables.

It's classical physics applied to modern design. Each handcrafted table is precisely tuned to seem rigid and stable, yet a touch reveals the secret to Float's dynamic character.

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