Geometric furniture

Product Designer, Vienna, Austria.

There is some pretty great stuff at IKEA. But it’s hard not to be jealous of IKEA shoppers from the 70s and 80s when you see some of the amazing stuff that used to line the retailer’s shelves. Here are eleven favorite vintage pieces that we’d love to see make a comeback. Above: IKEA’s TAJT, seen here on the cover of their 1973 catalog (via Scraphacker), is a pretty clever design — and maybe the most attractive chair-that-turns-into-a-bed I’ve ever seen.

World is moving towards innovative and aesthetically pleasing furniture items. The Tadashi Side Table by Deniz Aktay’s appears to be two hollow cubes intersecting. There is no curve, but the lines and edges offer different surfaces, creating a space for your books, knickknacks, and your pets or you use it to store cushions, pillows, and blankets.

Here is another set of photos of Vitra Edition, the collection of limited-edition pieces by famous designers including Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa and Konstantin Grcic that furniture brand Vitra launched in June, during Design Miami/Basel. This time the photos all have captions on them so we don't have to write them. Incidentally, Vitra's website has

The sculptural furniture trend helps us navigate the chaotic times. Learn about the popular sculptural furniture pieces and prepare for what comes next!

La Redonda is a chair that flirts with a pure two-dimensional geometrical figure, the circle. This perfect shape is molded after being cut over a steel plate, maintaining its purity in its step towards the three dimensions. The distortion that turns a steel plate into an object occupying space, fills it with complexity and gives it new geometric relationships at the same time that, given the necessary distance, still holds the simplicity of the circle. A vanishing point on the horizon…

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Wood-Skin, a new panel technology integrating wood, textile and geometrically cut patterns and digital hinges, adds another dimension to furniture and architectural design.

Explore our geometric wallpaper featuring a range of styles with dynamic energy, sleek modernity, or calming serenity. Free worldwide shipping.

Black Steel Stool Now here’s something we all want to see more of: multifunctional furniture. The Black Steel Stool by Noon studio is an interesting seating option on its own, but pull a few together and you have a coffee table; stack several straight up, and you have a bookcase. The wooden y-frame supports a simple metal sheet, and the two materials joined together provide a visually appealing warm/cool contrast.

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Simple yet unusual, modular yet quirky. The ROOM Collection of furniture by Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho is like IKEA but with a twist! READ & VIEW MORE NOW!

for design days dubai 2015, UAE-based designer aljoud lootah has created the 'oru series' furniture collection.

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