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Tools 2 was a Danish exhibition asking designers what they could produce using an industrial press. For her contribution, Danish designer Alvilde Holm started off with experimentation…

This handsome Clavex table is by Maximum, the French company that turns industrial and municipal waste into useful, saleable pieces of furniture. It's made from no less than four waste products, some of them quite surprising: Retired scaffolding, glass panels from decommissioned offices, wine corks and industrial paint overspray.A table with a pastRegularly, [scaffolding supplier] Altrad-Plettac retires a portion of its scaffolding inventory. Worn by long years of rental use, these pieces are no longer fit to hoist a worker high into the sky, yet—closer to the ground—they retain all their structural integrity.

When commercial fisherman haul their catch onboard, they dump them into these fish boxes. These are put on-ice, offloaded at shore, and transported directly to fish markets and auctions. The boxes are then transported to a processing facility. The fish are removed, to be processed and re-packaged, and the boxes are discarded or recycled. The boxes are made out of Expanded Polystyrene Foam (EPS), a/k/a Styrofoam, and are de facto single-use; they're never re-used due to fear of contamination. EPS is technically recyclable, and in Europe, where standards are stringent, these often are. However, in the rest of the world, not so much.

When asked to name the one thing that most excites her in the current world of design, Julia de Bono speaks in terms of intelligences, plural. "Human intuition, machine learning, material behavior, cultural memory and, of course, the ultimate intelligence: nature," she says. "Design now happens in the dialogue of many forms of intelligence." As CEO of Designworks, BMW Group's global creative consultancy, Julia has led the design of visionary concept vehicles including the BMW Vision Next 100, Mille Miglia Concept, and 3.0 CSL Hommage. Formerly head of BMW's Concept Car Team and Global Design Strategy, she now drives cross-industry innovation—advancing AI-augmented creativity, circular product ecosyste

Traditionally, churches seated worshippers in pews. Today that has changed to chairs. Why the furniture switch? Because churches used to only be for worship, and they were reliably packed on Sundays. Today church attendance is down, and they've adapted by turning into flexible-use spaces. It's not easy to move pews out of the way or rearrange them for meetings. But individual stacking chairs make the task much easier, and can be stored in small spaces.So in 2009 British furniture designer Simon Pengelly was commissioned to design a chair for Chorus, a contract furniture manufacturer. The brief was to design a sturdy, comfortable, lightweight, stackable chair for use in churches. The chair also needed to be offered in a linked version, for customers that still desired pew-like configurations.

In Italy, not all ruins go back to the time of the Romans. Take this impressive seaside edifice in southern Sicily. Its original date of construction? 1909-1912.Called the Fornace Penna, it was built as a brickworks. The location was purposeful: A nearby port facilitated export, a clay

A traditional Turkish piece of furniture is the sedir, a low-slung bench or sofa. Turkish industrial designer Gokce Nafak expands upon this with her Osolo Long Seating Unit concept."The core of the design is based on the series' characteristic single-piece folded metal body, which functions both as the structural support and as the architectural pl

It takes an entire community of Amish to raise a barn. And even for a single, conventionally-framed stud wall, you need at least a few people to get the thing up. But this invention by Virginia-based contractor Mark Helmuth reduces that number to one.Helmuth's

Is there anything more annoying that an articulated lamp that won't hold its position? Over time the springs wear out, or the joints lose friction.Mael Sandoz, an Industrial Design student at ECAL, proposes a different solution: "Staccato is an articulated desk lamp with magnetic connectors. The connectors that make up the joints of this lamp operate through a system of notched wheels held in place by magnets, offering a wide range of motion."

We loved watching Simone Giertz prototype her Laundry Chair, a swivel-arm chair valet, a couple years ago. The piece went viral on Instagram. Giertz recently bet that there was enough demand to start a Kickstarter for it, and boy, was she right: Her Laundry Chair campaign has racked up $750,000 in the few days since it launched.