New Furniture Design Ideas

August 9, 2009 11:58 AM

Modern Furniture Designs. Innovative and unique furniture has twists and turns, literal and conceptual ways of breaking from contemporary conventions and modern regularity. These creative furniture designs go beyond merely innovative, crossing boundaries of industrial, furniture and architectural design, using new methods and materials along the way.
posted by netbros (15 comments total)

That bed looks like a life-size Meccano project.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:12 PM on August 9, 2009

I so want one of those ODE chairs.
posted by jimmythefish at 12:13 PM on August 9, 2009

This blew my mind. I am so totally getting one!
posted by Admiral Haddock at 12:18 PM on August 9, 2009

Also, Funfurde.
posted by oddman at 12:42 PM on August 9, 2009

I find that I often have to remind myself that a home is more than a couple of walls and roof over your head. Thank you, netbros, for this.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 12:52 PM on August 9, 2009

All of this stuff probably won an award.
posted by darksasami at 1:00 PM on August 9, 2009

Those giant foam tubes are hilarious. I bet if you got stoned in the same room as one you'd totally start believing that your house was infested with giant worms.
posted by fearthehat at 1:27 PM on August 9, 2009

Frank Gehry is most famous today for large buildings with unusual unusual shapes. But years ago he made furniture out of laminated cardboard.

I was on a cruise ship to Alaska some years back when I came across two examples of these unique chairs behind glass on the ship itself.
posted by Tube at 1:44 PM on August 9, 2009 [1 favorite]

i love stuff like this. sometimes when i'm bored i cruise cribcandy and make mental lists of things i'll buy when i'm rich.
posted by msconduct at 1:45 PM on August 9, 2009

My cats would LOVE to pee on that stuff.
posted by Balisong at 3:09 PM on August 9, 2009 [2 favorites]

Some of these are really great. Some of them are obviously the result of a frantic desire to differentiate oneself, and would be unstable, impractical, and uncomfortable. Maybe it's my middle-class upbringing, but the ability to sustain use for fifty years is something I value in furniture.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 3:30 PM on August 9, 2009 [3 favorites]

All of this stuff probably won an award.

Most of this looks to me like the work of very, very talented undergraduates.
posted by StickyCarpet at 4:41 PM on August 9, 2009 [1 favorite]

Not much of them look very useful as furniture. They look cool though which is all that matters.
posted by octothorpe at 7:54 PM on August 9, 2009

If you like this, you may also like the Designboom weblog, Today and Tomorrow, Materialicious, Yatzer, Architonic and Stylepark.
posted by noway at 12:35 PM on August 10, 2009

This is fantastic. I think people underestimate the impact of their physical surroundings on their mental health.
posted by Zoecole at 4:53 PM on August 10, 2009