Products fair: London designer Lee Broom has unveiled a chair that pays homage to musical instruments, commissioning an orchestra to perform music by Debussy while seated on the chairs for the virtual launch. More
Dezeen promotion: dedicated Verner Panton manufacturer Verpan offers a range of furniture and lighting to create "homely" workspaces that suit both personal and professional uses. More
Dutch designer Studio Lancelot has created a series of school chairs that encourage children to frequently change seating positions in the classroom. More
Dezeen promotion: Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has introduced 16 new colours to three of the chairs in its iconic Arne Jacobsen-designed seating range. More
A squishy chair made from bio-foam that looks like stone, a modular seating system inspired by a church and vases cast from beeswax were among the objects on display at the Ukurant Objects exhibition at the 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen. More
Layer has designed a seat for social distancing in cinemas called Sequel that is knitted from antibacterial copper threads coloured in the "mid-century pastels" featured in Wes Anderson films. More
Products fair: Spanish studio MUT Design took visual cues from the leg press machines found in gyms when designing the Roll chair for Sancal, whose true function is unclear upon first view. More
Products fair: Italian furniture brand Magis has launched the Bell Chair, an affordable, stackable monobloc seat made of recycled polypropylene by Konstantin Grcic. More
Italian brand Magis has launched Bell Chair, a lightweight, low-cost stackable monobloc chair made of recycled polypropylene. In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, designer Konstantin Grcic explains how he created a product that is "just over half of the weight of a normal chair". More
Often associated with toughness, concrete is an unusual material choice for furniture. But these six designs show how the material can be used for seating in a variety of forms including curved stools, puffy chairs and squashed benches. More
Georgian designer Sandro Lominashvili has created an angular chair from 18 segments of wood, which are pieced together to form a structure that bears resemblance to the body of an insect. More
Products fair: The Freedom Headrest was developed by the late American industrial designer Niels Diffrient for Humanscale as a "truly ergonomic task chair" that automatically adapts to its user. More
In the final instalment of Lensvelt's collaboration with Virtual Design Festival, the Dutch design brand showcases three seating collections at the VDF products fair by OMA, Richard Hutten and Staat. More
VDF products fair: The Lensvelt D-Chair is designed by communication and design agency Staat with a frame that incorporates a coat hanger and evokes "fragile insect feet". More
VDF products fair: Lensvelt's This Bucket Chair is designed by Richard Hutten with a distinctive tub-like seat sculpted from plastic and available in several colours. More
VDF products fair: An assemblage of upholstered squares and rectangles forms the adjustable AVL Lazy Modernist armchair, which was created for Lensvelt by Dutch designer Joep van Lieshout. More
VDF products fair: The AVL Spider Chair is named after its long, spindly legs, and was made for Lensvelt by Dutch designer Joep van Lieshout using traditional carpentry methods. More
VDF products fair: The AVL Office Chair, designed by Joep van Lieshout for Dutch furniture brand Lensvelt, has graced a variety of interiors, from Amsterdam's Stedelijk museum to 2014's Nuclear Security Summit. More
VDF products fair: Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola created the Nuez chairs from recyclable plastic as part of a collection for furniture makers Andreu World. More
VDF products fair: Amorphous backrests with a hand-drawn aesthetic characterise the customisable 101 Chairs that Maarten Baas has designed for Lensvelt. More
