This year, furniture designs ventured out of the home onto the streets and into prisons. Design reporter Jennifer Hahn picks out her top 10 projects for our review of 2019, from public seating in Beirut to silicone chairs. More about Dezeen's top 10 furniture designs of 2019
South African designer Porky Hefer has extended his collection of hanging chairs at this year's Design Miami with a series of leathery seats that each represent a different molecular compound. More about Porky Hefer's Molecules are hanging seats modelled on chemical compounds
New York designer Daniel Arsham and design gallery Friedman Benda have installed a translucent green box to launch futuristic furnishings at this year's Design Miami. More about Daniel Arsham turns his Design Miami booth into a cabinet of curiosities
Ethical design brand Mater has launched a chair with a woven rattan seat inspired by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, and a stool featuring a seat made from recycled materials, both designed by architect Eva Harlou. More about Mater uses recycled plastic and rattan for latest furniture designs
Crosby Studios' founder Harry Nuriev has teamed up with Balenciaga to create a transparent vinyl couch filled with worn and discarded clothing from the French fashion brand. More about Harry Nuriev stuffs vinyl sofa with old Balenciaga clothing
Studio Sain worked with one of Austria's last remaining woodturners to develop this collection of hand-turned wooden products that feature moving parts or modular components. More about Studio Sain uses traditional hand-turning process to create products incorporating wooden ball joints
An embroidered floor lamp and eel-skin clad cabinet are among the objects in a collection by US lighting studio Apparatus that took direction from musical scores. More about Apparatus designs Interlude furniture for "imagined, modernist concert hall"
Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is hosting an exhibition at its Miami Design District showroom featuring works by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, architect and designer Piero Lissoni and fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester. More about Luminaire to exhibit works by Konstantin Grcic and Piero Lissoni during Design Miami
After more than a year of prototyping, Savannah studio Donttakethisthewrongway has unveiled its design for a chair that consists of a single cardboard box. More about Savannah design studio reimagines cardboard box as chair
New York studio Pelle has created a low table made from pieces of solid aluminium that are milled to a tolerance of one thousandth of an inch and fixed together using traditional Japanese joinery techniques. More about Pelle's aluminium DVN Table is held together by friction
London studio SmithMatthias has created a wooden bar stool for British design brand Deadgood featuring a simple structure held together by a visible lap joint that gives the product its name. More about Lap Stool by SmithMatthias highlights traditional joinery technique
From a trio of mirrors depicting Dubai's arid landscape to a set of sand-cast chairs by female artisans in Sharjah, Dezeen's Natashah Hitti has picked seven designs from Downtown Editions 2019 that celebrate regional traits. More about Seven designs from Dubai's Downtown Editions fair that celebrate the Middle East
London design studio Sella Concept has launched its first furniture collection – a series of handmade stools featuring curvaceous forms inspired by the bathers at Hampstead Heath's Ladies' Pond. More about Sella Concept "masters the art of curves" with first furniture collection
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. More about Luca Nichetto designs modular furniture to work in public spaces and the home
A jagged edged bookshelf and a series of modular armchairs are among the rare and limited-edition furniture designs by Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More about New York exhibition displays rarely seen furniture by Italian architect Gaetano Pesce
Growing With You is a range of furniture pieces by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao that are designed to adapt to the size of space they're in. More about Tatiana Bilbao designs Growing With You furniture collection
Online design retailer Radnor has opened a new studio and launched an updated furniture collection inside The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. More about Radnor opens studio in old Brooklyn factory
Swedish architecture firm Claesson Koivisto Rune worked with expert Japanese carpenter Yuji Takahashi on this collection of hand-crafted wooden furniture, which doesn't have a single flat surface. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune collaborates with master woodworker on Hand furniture
The Lily furniture collection created by architecture firm BIG for Danish brand Skagerak has no sharp corners, in an homage to the gently sloping oval shape of lily pads. More about BIG creates indoor-outdoor furniture collection that mimics the shape of lily pads
London-based company Hackney Botanical has created a collection of seven coffee tables that double up as "indoor gardens" and use found, antique sash-windows as table tops. More about Hackney Botanical makes plant-filled coffee tables out of reclaimed windows