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Furniture and design: 12 trends
We have identified 12 important areas that designers, furniture makers, exposition architects, and dealers spoke about.
Plastic Pollution: The Designers’ Response
The world's population is growing, and the amount of garbage is increasing. Plastic is recognized as the main anti-hero. The problem of "plastic pollution" - plastic pollution - is already on par with global warming. Designers contribute to its solution.
Norwegian trash chair – Snøhetta: S-1500
Snøhetta designed a chair for Nordic Comfort Products (NCP) made from recycled ocean debris, old fishing nets, and scrap metal.
Trends 2023/2024: recycled felt furniture
Design studio Stackabl and Maison Gerard explore the creative possibilities of reusing materials. They draw on both antique collecting culture and recent recycling inventions. Together they developed an innovative system for designing bespoke furniture and lighting without waste.
Mycelium coffins (coffin from mushroom)
Designer Bob Hendrikx proposed his vision of ecological ritual devices: his coffin, created from mycelium, completely disintegrates in the ground in a couple of years, unlike traditional wood and velvet-covered ones, which take more than ten years to decompose.
Trends 2023/2024: vegan home or 10 ways to achieve perfection
Following the food, beauty, and fashion sectors, the home goods market is keeping up with the vegan trend and finding ways to avoid the use of animal-based materials. Paris-based agency NellyRodi has singled out the desire to create a vegan home as a separate trend, which has every chance of becoming one of the most significant in 2023.
Trends 2022/2023: the most advanced furniture design trends
Innovative trends in furniture design are clearly visible when studying objects that have won various international awards. We present current objects that have recently won prizes in European and Asian competitions.
6 rules for using gold to create a noble interior
We tell you how to combine gold with natural materials and other metals, what color ratio should be in the interior, and other rules for using bright metal.
