• Tweet
• 
• 

• Tweet
• 
• 

Who said that modern furniture and contemporary furnishings should have any limitations? Validating the notion that in fact, modern furniture design knows no barriers, especially in the choice of materials, are a few examples where conventional forms are executed using unconventional materials yet all these extraordinary pieces maintain their practical demeanor.

Honey Pop Chair by Tokujin Yoshioka is made out of paper.  Yes, paper – you heard it…so avoid spilling drinks or lighting candles around it.  The Honey Pop Chair is built using 120 pieces of glassine paper which are glued together and precisely contoured into a multi dimensional structure which when “opened”, fashions a honeycomb silhouette, hence the namesake.

Honey Pop Chair by Tokujin Yoshioka

Honey Pop Chair by Tokujin Yoshioka

Cassette Tapes Floor Lamp by ooo my design is reinventing the most famous and defining 80’s moniker – cassette tapes by assigning it a new function – lighting fixture.  The tapes are tied together by a string, forming a boxy design.

Cassette Tapes Floor Lamp by ooo my design

Clutch Chair by Scott Jarvie is made from drinking straws using 10,000 drinking plastic straws. Clutch Chair was chosen by Zaha Hadid as the Curator’s Choice at the Noise Festival in 2008. Made from 10,000 drinking straws.

Clutch Chair by Scott Jarvie

Italian furniture manufacturer Santambrogio Milano designs and produces their Simplicity line of furniture using super durable tempered glass. The collection uses the ultra-clear Diamant Glass by Saint Gobain. The glass bed and sofa below are only the latest in a growing line of glass furniture that Santambrogio Milano have produced, past pieces include tables, benches, chaise lounges, and entire kitchens and bathrooms all made of glass.

Glass Bed by Santambrogio Milano

Tags: Chairs, Contemporary Furniture, Furnishings, Modern Furniture, Platform Bed, Platform Beds