In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Roger Arquer talks about the benches he made for the Stepney Green Design Collection using materials sourced from his local family-run hardware shop just before it closed down. More about "This bench is a tribute to a local hardware shop" - Roger Arquer
London Design Festival: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has created a trestle table and bench with timber parts held in tension by sheets of bowed steel. More about Bow by Benjamin Hubert for De La Espada
East London designer Roger Arquer has made a bench out of materials he salvaged from his local hardware shop before it closed down, which he is contributing to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. More about General Woodwork Bench by Roger Arquer for the Stepney Green Design Collection
London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). More about Bench Years by Established & Sons at the V&A museum
East London designer Gitta Gschwendtner is going to make a one-off three-seater version of her Bodge Bench as the first piece chosen for the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. More about Bodge Bench by Gitta Gschwendtner for the Stepney Green Design Collection
German designer Valentin Loellmann used hazel branches to create the knobbly legs of these benches, tables and stools. More about Seasons by Valentin Loellmann
Fallen stars, glowing red dominoes and a vine-covered tree are some of the lights installed by artists, designers and architects in Lisbon this Christmas (photographs by Fernando Guerra). More about Lisbon Christmas Lights by Pedro Sottomayor, José Adrião and ADOC
Spanish designer Valentin Garal has designed a bench with an integrated budgie cage. More about Family Bench by Valentin Garal for Le Porc-Shop
This floating bench by Japanese studio h220430 appears to be held up by bunches of balloons at either end. More about Balloon Bench by h220430
Swedish designers Marcus Abrahamsson Kristoffer Fagerström have created this bench with a seat made of stacked pine batons for outdoor furniture brand Nola. More about Pylon by Marcus Abrahamsson and Kristoffer Fagerström for Nola
Dutch designer Chris Kabel has created a circular bench made from one 10 metre-long wooden beam. More about Shared Space III by Chris Kabel
These mirrored benches by Japanese firm Mount Fuji Architects Studio sit beneath cherry trees at the Towada Art Centre in Japan. More about In Flakes by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Designers StokkeAustad presented a cantilevered bench with a concrete base at an exhibition called Norwegian Prototypes during the London Design Festival last month. More about Cantilevered bench by StokkeAustad