Five whimsical City Benches animate London's streets
A concrete pineapple and a pair of colourful cartoon eyes are among the playful benches that young architects and designers have installed for the London Festival of Architecture. More
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Ini Archibong designs rock-like furniture with its own drainage system
Designer Ini Archibong took visual cues from the staggered rock formations of The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland when creating his Kadamba Gate table and benches, which were showcased during London Design Festival. More
MT Bench by Shinsaku Miyamoto for Ritzwell
Dezeen Showroom: woven leather straps form the seat of the MT Bench, which Japanese designer Shinsaku Miyamoto has created for Ritzwell. More
New Goodies but Oldies furniture collection made from old tables
Designer Daniel Svahn's chairs for a town hall in Stockholm are made from recycled unwanted tabletops that were destined for the dump. More
Massproductions' modular outdoor sofa is an homage to crowd-control barriers
Swedish furniture brand Massproductions is set to release an outdoor sofa at Stockholm Design Week that mimics the welded steel barriers that are often erected at concerts to manage the crowd. More
Floor Skrabanja designs 3D-knitted furniture without staples or stitches
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Floor Skrabanja has created a collection of seats made from a single piece of 3D-knitted upholstery that needs no gluing or stitching, so can easily be deconstructed. More
Form Us With Love creates modular benches to give people privacy in public spaces
Swedish studio Form Us With Love has designed a modular bench seating system for +Halle, which aims to create privacy in public without using walls or dividers. More
Atelier NL creates benches from storm-felled trees for Dutch Design Week
Atelier NL has made a series of wooden benches from trees uprooted in a huge storm that hit Eindhoven earlier this year, to sit alongside objects made from wood at their studio. More
Snøhetta installs curved Best Weapon bench to encourage conversations at UN Headquarters
Architecture firm Snøhetta has installed a smile-shaped aluminium bench at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to promote "a message of peace and conflict resolution." More
Public Works builds waste-to-energy Power Plant(s)! to showcase fossil fuel alternative
Public Works has built a water-heating system powered by compost that warms a bench at the Oslo Architecture Triennale to demonstrate the potential of the system. More
Camille Walala transforms London street into colourful "urban living room"
French designer Camille Walala has installed benches, planters and flags adorned with her signature colourful patterns along South Molton Street to turn the road into the Walala Lounge. More
Paul Cocksedge creates undulating communal bench in London
Please Be Seated is a giant outdoor seating installation made of three concentric rings of wave-like forms made from scaffolding planks. More
Jeong Greem brings doodles to life in Mono furniture series
Three-dimensional doodle-like lines form this series of furniture by Korean designer Jeong Greem, which aims to breathe life into mundane, everyday materials. More
Snøhetta designs bench for Nobel Peace Centre that brings people together
A bench designed by architecture firm Snøhetta for the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo is shaped like a partial circle to encourage people to sit closer together and start conversations. More
City Benches by young designers brighten London's Cheapside
A giant sleeping whippet and a bright red sundial are among the playful street furniture enlivening the UK capital during the London Festival of Architecture.
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Joe Doucet installs anti-terror benches in New York's Times Square
New York designer Joe Doucet has created a 3D-printed concrete bench that also functions as a barrier to protect public spaces from vehicle-led terrorist attacks. More
Dion Lee repurposes traditional tailoring techniques for leather furniture collection
Australian furniture producer DesignByThem has teamed up with fashion designer Dion Lee to develop a collection comprising a lounge chair and bench made by slashing and weaving leather. More
Thomas Bentzen brings garden furniture indoors with Linear Wood dining table for Muuto
Danish designer Thomas Bentzen has created a dining table and bench series for Muuto, with the same design details as the picnic-bench-inspired furniture he created for the brand's outdoor range. More
8 Hour presents Clips furniture collection at Design Shanghai
Shanghai-based design studio 8 Hour has released a range of seating, which is inspired by the "changing forms" of a paperclip. More
Djao-Rakitine creates monolithic street furniture for London's Selfridges
Landscape architecture practice Djao-Rakitine has erected a monolithic marble drinking water fountain and bench outside London's Selfridges department store. More