In our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with Danish design brand Muuto to offer readers the chance to win a Cover Side Chair, designed by Thomas Bentzen. More about Competition: win a Cover Side Chair by Thomas Bentzen for Muuto
Designers Studio Sløyd developed a collection of chunky pine chairs to demonstrate a contemporary take on a wood it feels is unfairly neglected. More about Studio Sløyd's Furuhelvete collection challenges perceptions of "outdated" pine furniture
Finnish design brand Made by Choice has released a series of furniture and products that typifies its playful Nordic style, including a cabinet punctured by hundreds of holes and a collection of colourful wooden boxes. More about Made by Choice launches cartoonish chairs and tables that embody "nordic happiness"
Multiple European brands came together for MUT Design's Das Haus installation at IMM Cologne to create hybrid indoor-outdoor furniture prototypes that are now being put into production. More about MUT Design blurs line between indoors and outdoors with Das Haus furniture
Holiday homes and hotels that also function as shoppable furniture showrooms are growing in popularity. Here are five examples including a Copenhagen hotel, a Melbourne apartment and a Hamptons house. More about Five hotels and holidays homes that double up as showrooms
Danish firm BIG looked to its own architecture when designing the modular Voxel sofa system for Common Seating, making seats out of gridded pixel-like blocks. More about BIG designs pixel-like sofa based on its own architecture
Velvet poufs, rearrangeable shelving and bathroom cabinets feature in this furniture collection by American design company Henrybuilt. More about Henrybuilt launches Primary Objects collection of customisable furniture
Furniture design studio ATRA has created a modular sofa system upholstered with a hemp-based fabric. More about ATRA uses hemp fibre and recycled materials for Nerthus-Sofa furniture collection
Blocks of limestone are transformed into furniture in this collection by students from the Estonian Academy of Arts. More about Estonian Academy of Arts students create furniture from raw limestone
Dutch designers Iris van Daalen and Ruben Thier's The Plastic Mine is a series of home accessories made from plastic clumps gathered from a factory floor. More about Thier & van Daalen's The Plastic Mine homeware reveals hidden patterns in factory waste
Malessa Studio's wooden NEST crate unpacks to create a bed, desk, bench and shelf designed in response to the increasingly nomadic lifestyle of young urbanites. More about NEST moving crate opens up into a minimal home kit for generation rent
To coincide with Stockholm Design Week, the city's 19th century Gamla Riksarkivet played host to The Archive exhibition exploring the "shared aesthetics and values" of Japanese and Scandinavian design. More about Stockholm's historic national archive hosts first ever design exhibition
Unusual, innovative and avant-garde approaches to seating were among the highlights of Dutch design fair Object Rotterdam, which took place earlier this month. Anna Winston picks six of the most intriguing chairs from the annual event's crop of up-and-coming talent. More about Six alternative approaches to seating from Object Rotterdam 2020
Seoul design studio Useful Workshop has created a furniture series made from sheets of aluminium that are bent to form curves using industrial machinery. More about Useful Workshop's Curvature furniture is made from pressed sheet metal
Swedish designer Kajsa Melchior has created a collection of furniture and lighting with organic silhouettes, shaped like geologic formations using pressure, water and air. More about Fictive Erosion furniture uses sand casting to mimic natural rock formation process
Danish furniture brand Møbel has collaborated with Studio David Thulstrup to create a duo of odd-couple tables – one made entirely from ceramic and the other from contrasting, powder-coated steel. More about Studio David Thulstrup designs "co-dependent" Pair side tables for Møbel
Brooklyn creative agency An Aesthetic Pursuit has designed a bold rental house in Maine with furniture and products that guests can purchase. More about An Aesthetic Pursuit designs shoppable Airbnb in Maine
Visitors are encouraged to touch, swing, stack and reconfigure colourful plush furniture staged throughout this installation, which Fort Makers designed to harness the "power of play" in its New York gallery. More about Painted canvas and padded furniture cover Fort Makers gallery for Puffy exhibit
Parisian furniture brand La Chance has unveiled a series of new additions to its collection, including a chunky bookcase and a side table that plays with perspective. More about La Chance presents new furniture designs during Maison&Objet
Designer Daniel Svahn's chairs for a town hall in Stockholm are made from recycled unwanted tabletops that were destined for the dump. More about New Goodies but Oldies furniture collection made from old tables