There’s good design, beautiful design, minimal design. Then there’s the just plain different. In the realm of furniture, with its clearly established forms, this category is often fascinating (for better or worse) and occasionally edifying. So here are the most unusual furniture designs we saw in 2022:
Furniture Designer Toni Grilo’s Blackcork line of largely monolithic cork furniture
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Industrial designer Giorgio Gurioli’s Bikechair; a 3D-printed alternative to yoga-ball-as-chair?
Ikaria Design Co.’s Soul Seat, an office chair that allows you to sit crosslegged
The Pipersong Meditation Chair lets you sit in unusual positions
Steelcase’s Nesting Flex Perch Stool, for perching rather than sitting
Estudio Sancal’s Perigallo, a folding perch-style stool
Ippinka’s Anywhere Kneeling Chair, designed for meditating or kneeling for long stretches
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Nemo Equipment’s Stargaze, a suspension-based twist on the camping chair
Philips Collection’s Entropy Chair doesn’t look like seating
Amish Time-Out Chairs for kids, a punitive furniture design
OD Form’s unnamed high-backed tea chair
Fredrik Mattson’s Nulle, a self-standing folding chair
Industrial designer Kouichi Okamoto’s The Chairman, an extreme take on the suspension-based chair
Fortum’s Virén Chair, which gets back up if knocked over
Yamaha Design Lab’s Solo, a stool that doubles as a guitar stand
The Kabine 101, a stool created to store valuables
Industrial designer Christophe de la Fontaine’s Haku, a freestanding storage piece
The Sonu Sleep System, a mattress designed with arm channels for side sleepers
A custom-built bookcase with sliding vertical dividers
Bertjan Pot’s Slim Tables are so thin, they almost qualify as optical illusions
Riddling Tables, furniture used in the winemaking process
Industrial designer Benjamin Thut’s Tool Cabinet 490, a hideaway workstation based on bi-level toolboxes
Industrial designer Benjamin Thut’s Scissor Table has a unique folding mechanism
Yuki Iriyama Gray’s fascinating experimental furniture designs
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