Modern Furniture
Contemporary furniture design exploring form, function, and manufacturing across residential and commercial spaces.
20 Most Popular Furniture Design Projects of 2025
Modular street systems, parametric benches, and insect hotels: the furniture design projects that captivated architects on uni.xyz in 2025.
AIM Architecture Turns a Shanghai Textile Factory into a Furniture Showroom Built for Designers
Studio 9 strips back a former factory in JingAn district, letting raw concrete frame four furniture brands and a communal café.
Floating Icebergs: Simple Craft Collection Showroom by HAS Design and Research
Iceberg-inspired showroom merges sculptural pillars, fluid interiors, and curated lighting to transform furniture retail into an immersive architectural experience.
Stacked Coffee Table: Three Plywood Layers Composed Like a Loose Pile of Playing Cards
Maple, oak and walnut plywood layers, offset like scattered cards, give a flat-pack coffee table six colour orders and a quietly sculptural presence.
Eazyfit: A Bamboo and Steel Grid That Scales from Shelving to Shelter
Ankur Gupta's kit turns a 30mm steel cube into a universal joint, letting renters build furniture, walls and roofs, then return parts to a bank.
Dimension: A Two-Module Sofa Bed That Lets Furniture Rewrite the Studio Apartment Floor Plan
A pair of linked sofa modules shifts between chair, bench, bed and corner sofa, treating furniture as the movable architecture of small homes.
Terrace Coffee Table: Carving Mountain Farmland into a Tabletop That Still Works as One
Hemal Patel turns the stepped fields of terrace farming into a CNC-carved timber surface, where every level is dimensioned for everyday objects.
Design Chair for Kids at Home: A Legless, Pattern-Born Seat Scaled to Children Aged 2 to 7
A grounded, loop-patterned chair built from child ergonomics, where safety comes from form and the seat doubles as play surface and spatial anchor.
Shell Chair: A Plywood Seat That Trades Four-Legged Certainty for an Unfolding Experience
Maryam Moradi and Reza Kabudmehri split a plywood backrest into unfolding panels, turning the act of sitting into an encounter with balance and enclosure.
Urban Criss: A Modular Bench System That Turns Public Seating Into Urban Landscape
A runner-up at Urbanscape 2018, Urban Criss bends plywood and steel into modular seats scaled for solitude, couples and groups in shared public space.
BoX: A Pine Frame and Stackable Cupboards That Rethink Furniture for Small Rooms
Vivek Namdev's modular system pairs a Canadian pine frame with repeatable cupboard modules, keeping windows clear and small rooms open to light.
Araastaar: Persian Vaults and Girih Tiles Condensed into Architectural Furniture
A furniture collection that translates 2,500-year-old Iranian arches and geometric patterns into intimate, human-scaled objects for daily use.
