American designer Sam Stewart has created stick chairs dressed in plastic sheaths, a bed-dining table hybrid and a bench press for a "person or creature" that might inhabit a space at New York gallery Fort Gansevoort. More about Sam Stewart imagines furniture for fictional New York apartment occupant
Parisian interior architect and designer Stéphane Parmentier has created a collection of ribbed, leather-wrapped furniture for Italian brand Giobagnara. More about Stéphane Parmentier upholsters chubby furniture collection in leather
The first edition of 21st-century design fair Collectible is taking place this week in Brussels. Dezeen's Natashah Hitti reveals her pick of the best works on show, from tables made of inflated brass cushions to brick-wall punching bags. More about 10 of the best objects on show for first Collectible contemporary design fair
Brooklyn artist Thomas Barger has created a series of furniture pieces based on his childhood experiences in Illinois, which are on show at New York's Salon 94 Design gallery. More about Thomas Barger's childhood memories inform cartoonish paper pulp chairs
Snarkitecture has designed a chair for Portuguese brand UVA that features a wooden frame that is seemingly slipping onto its side. More about Snarkitecture's Slip chair features wonky legs and a slanted seat
Korean designer WoongKi Ryu has based elements of this chair on the motifs and colours seen in paintings by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. More about WoongKi Ryu's Abstraction chair takes cues from works of Kandinsky
Dezeen and office furniture brand Bene hosted a panel talk with Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner and WeWork design director Andy Heath about how workplace design is changing. More about Watch our talk with Bene on workplace design
Movable table tops for working at a laptop and hangers for storing coats can be incorporated into this modular sofa, created by British designer Lucy Kurrein for Offecct. More about Lucy Kurrein's modular sofa "rejects the conventional working environment"
An exhibition of work by Jaime Hayon is currently taking place as part of Madrid Design Festival, marking the first time that the Spanish designer has had a retrospective staged in his own country. More about Jaime Hayon's work celebrated in first Spanish retrospective
Dezeen promotion: creases are stitched into the cushions of this sofa, designed by Italian architect Antonio Citterio for furniture brand Flexform, to emphasise the natural folds created by sitting. More about Antonio Citterio designs sofa with linear creases for Flexform
A group of German designers have created stool seats from oddly shaped pieces of recycled plastic produced at an injection-moulding factory. More about Scrap Life Project transforms waste plastic from injection-moulding process into stools
Swedish brand Voice has a launched a collection of "fundamental" furniture for the modern home, based on the concept of basics in fashion. More about Voice launches the furniture equivalent of wardrobe essentials
A dilapidated building, once used an embassy for Mexico, was the venue where new Japanese furniture producer Ariake showcased its inaugural collection during Stockholm Design Week 2018. More about New Japanese furniture brand Ariake presents first range inside crumbling Stockholm embassy
A range of furniture designs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s were relaunched during this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair – proving that the demand for midcentury icons is still strong. More about Seven midcentury furniture designs relaunched at Stockholm Design Week
Flexible concrete cloth has made possible the swooping shapes of this console designed by Portland-based Neal Aronowitz. More about Neal Aronowitz folds Concrete Cloth into sculptural table
Design collective EWE Studio has used fire to treat the many different materials in this limited-edition collection of jet-black furniture and lava-like lighting. More about EWE Studio's handcrafted Alquimia furniture and lighting is born of fire
Pleated fabrics, self-watering plant pots and a new take on the sofa bed all feature in the inaugural homeware collection from new Norwegian brand Northern. More about Norwegian lifestyle brand Northern launches first furniture and homeware collection
Students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts have created a collection of furniture for school classrooms, intended to help children stay focused during lessons. More about Design students create classroom furniture to help kids concentrate
French designer François Bauchet used a composite material made from sand, resin and concrete to create this furniture collection for Galerie Kreo, which features clover-shaped details. More about François Bauchet creates "clover-shaped" furniture for Galerie Kreo
Interior architecture students from Aalto University in Helsinki have designed a range of colourful chairs, intended to help a sitter reach a mediative state of mind. More about Aalto University students unveil 12 chairs designed to help you reach nirvana