What comes to your mind when you hear “furniture”? Your chair and table in the office? Your bed? Sofa? Lounge? Maybe your wardrobe? While you likely imagine something pretty traditional, designers from all over the world are busy thinking outside of the box when it comes to modern furniture design. They compete to turn the concept of furniture into unique pieces of art! The shapes they create and materials they use in these modern furniture marvels are unbelievable, and the “things” they design in many cases are just as comfortable as more traditional furniture. I love all the innovations and I praise ergonomics, so let us jump into the world of modern furniture design and see what it has to offer — one part function and two parts style!

Lago

Website: www.lago.it
This young Italian company employs around 150 creative designers for their modern furniture masterpieces. They’re my favorite modern furniture company — they have everything I could dream of and it’s all in one place on their website.

Hidden Art Shop

Website: www.hiddenartshop.com
Hidden Art is a membership-based organization that supports and promotes designer-makers. In their online shop, you will find some unique and amazing work from lots of designers (and for quiet affordable pricing!). Take a few minutes to check out their modern furniture offerings if you are looking for new furniture for your house or apartment. The pieces below are some of my favorite.

YCAMI spa

Website: www.ycami.com
Ycami was conceived in 1990 as the brand of the Caimi group — a leader in aluminum transformation which produces accessories for the furniture industry. I think their products are outstanding and can nicely fit into the design of any apartment, even with only limited space.

SIDD Fine Woodworking

Website: www.sidd.ca
SIDD is a small independent company based in Ottawa, Canada. All SIDD pieces are handcrafted, and each piece is discreetly signed and numbered by the person who built it, making your new modern furniture feel more like modern art.

Planika Fires

Website: www.planikausa.com
Planika Fires creates real fireplaces without any smoke. It’s a great addition to any modern interior, allowing fireplaces to become integral design elements even in unexpected places.

Tomita Designs

Website: www.tomitadesigns.com
Their passion is sculpture, modern furniture, and interior design. The owner of the company draws inspiration from traditional Japanese forms, which makes his designs stand apart from the crowd.

ODEChair by Jolyon Yates

Website: www.odechair.com
Jolyon Yates offers this interesting chair collection. It’s hard to judge whether they are convenient or comfortable to sit on, but I wouldn’t mind having one in my apartment — even if just to incite friends to stare.

Minus tio

Website: www.minustio.com
The “thing” you see below is created from a quadrate cut into four pieces. Each piece has an identical shape but different heights. The pieces can be arranged in a number of different ways, adapting to any room or event. Stylish and convenient — what could be better?

Delta Bed Project

Website: nicolafrombern.com
This amazingly creative bed design by Nicola From Bern is made up of fiberglass-reinforced plastic tubes that can be telescoped, allowing them to be change based on mattress size.

Baukke Knottnerus

Website: baukeknottnerus.nl
PHAT KNITS is a series of giant threads used to create knitted products for your home’s interior. It’s soft and safe for children to play around.

Meritalia

Website: www.meritalia.it
Quoting from their website, “Meritalia was born in 1987 for the production of upholstered and other furnishing elements and developed a precious know-how which today allows it to dedicate itself to a high level of work providing a personalized and complete ‘keys in hand’ with an almost exaggerated care.” And I fully agree with this statement.

Peter Obsvik

Website: www.opsvik.no

Tom Dixon

Website: www.tomdixon.net
Launched in September 2008, Tom Dixon by George Smith is a contemporary British upholstery brand that unites quality traditional manufacturing techniques and contemporary design. Good work guys!

Casimir Meubelen

Website: www.casimirmeubelen.be
Casimir is a talented designer living in Belgium. His works are elegant,warm, and cozy, with a modern, minimalist flair.

Velichko Velikov

Website: velikov-design.com
Velichko Velikov is a Bulgarian designer presently working in London. His approach is pretty interesting and modern, working with unusual shapes and textures.

Charlie Davidson

Website: www.charlie-davidson.com
Not many works are presented in the portfolio of Swedish designer, Charlie Davidson. But every piece of modern furniture he creates is a beautiful, ultra-modern masterpiece.

Fred Rieffel

Website: www.fredrieffel.com
Rieffel is a talented designer from France with tiny chairs, tables, sofas and accessories to his name.

Dima Lofinoff

Website: dimaloginoff.com
Dima is a Russian designer living in Moscow. He has lots of original works in his portfolio. Unfortunately there are no photos of completed pieces — all the works are presented as 3D designs.

Cecilia Design

Website: www.ceciliadesign.se
Cecilia Lundgren is a Swedish designer with an extensive knowledge not only in product design and furniture design, but also in graphic design and illustration.

Allan Copley

Website: www.wolkdesign.com

STUDIO thebaek

Website: www.thebaek.com
Baek Ki Kim is a young designer who has worked for Samsung Electronics. He mainly does project-based design work which includes self-organized projects and client-contracted projects.

BLC Gallery

Website: www.carbonfibre-design.com
Space furniture. If you have a minute to visit their website you’ll be surprised to find out what the furniture is made from.

Miso Soup Design Group

Website: www.misosoupdesign.com
Miso Soup is a Japanese design studio where the innovative use of technology is the key factor in their perfect designs.

Mussi

Website: www.mussi.it

Odesi: Dutch design online

Website: www.odesi.nl
Odesi is a new and thrilling modern furniture design label. They say that they work with new Dutch talent. Well, yes, I find them very talented indeed.

There are so many other interesting modern furniture designs I’ve seen, but these are just a few of the best that I wanted to share with you. There are also many great websites that I would gladly mention, but the photos they have in portfolios are unfortunately too small to show case. Consider yourself tasked with a scavenger hunt to find even more great modern furniture designs from around the world. Be sure to come back and tell us about them! Have a great day!

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