The quilted back of this chair by Spanish studio Muka Design Lab can be stood up straight or folded down. More about Muka Design Lab's Reves Chair has a backrest "like a shirt collar"
Stockholm 2015: Swedish industrial designer Jenny Nordberg built each item of furniture in her latest collection by hand in under five minutes (+ movie). More about Jenny Nordberg produces hand-made furniture pieces in less than five minutes
Japanese studio Naoya Matsumoto Design has launched a collection of simple kitchen stools that are painted at the top and left with a natural finish lower down. More about Naoya Matsumoto Design creates two-tone stools
Stockholm 2015: high backrests surround these upholstered seats by Swedish furniture brand Lammhults (+ slideshow). More about Portus sofa system by Lammhults designed to create a "room within a room"
Stockholm 2015: Danish furniture manufacturer Carl Hansen & Søn has refreshed a 1970 tray table by Modernist designer Hans J Wegner with a pale and smoked oak veneer. More about Carl Hansen & Søn updates Hans J Wegner's reversible tray table with smoked oak surfaces
Stockholm 2015: a trio of designers created this range of expanded metal and wooden furniture for Swedish company Blå Station with the intent that each successive owner will customise the pieces. More about Honken furniture for Blå Station is designed to acquire "a beautiful patina of history"
Belgian studio Muller Van Severen will debut its latest pieces of furniture and lighting that "ooze a sort of fruitiness" at London gallery Viaduct next month (+ slideshow). More about Muller Van Severen to present new furniture at Viaduct exhibition
Stockholm 2015: Japanese designer Yuki Yoshikawa of Nanashiproducts used layers of acrylic gouache paint to highlight wood grains on the seat and back of these simple chairs. More about Yuki Yoshikawa accentuates Grain Chair with painted patterns
Stockholm 2015: furniture design students from Helsinki's Aalto University have used blue-coloured plywood and black tubular steel to form sculptural chair prototypes. More about Aalto University students design chairs from bright blue plywood
London-based German designer Jule Waibel has launched a collection of seats made from 100 per cent wool felt that has been three-dimensionally folded under steam to create flexible pleats (+ slideshow). More about Jule Waibel’s pine cone-shaped seats are made by steam-folding wool felt
Spanish furniture brand Missana has launched a hand-upholstered three-seater sofa by product design studio LaSelva that integrates a wooden drinks tray (+ slideshow). More about Wooden tray replaces one arm of LaSelva's Cosmo sofa
Maison&Objet 2015: Copenhagen designers Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin have created an injection-moulded wood-fibre composite chair that is 100 per cent recyclable for Danish design brand Muuto (+ slideshow). More about Iskos-Berlin updates the plastic shell chair with recyclable equivalent
Stockholm 2015: office furniture brand Glimakra has released a collection of storage units that can also be used to reduce sound and partition areas in open-plan workspaces (+ slideshow). More about Johan Kauppi and Bertil Harström launch sound-absorbing office furniture for Glimakra
Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer David Ericsson has created a lightweight chair in solid beech – his "all-time favourite wood" – for furniture brand Gärsnäs. More about David Ericsson "revels in beech" to create Madonna Chair for Gärsnäs
Stockholm 2015: Norwegian designer Silje Nesdal presented a sofa bed, a shelving system and a set of bookends – all for small spaces – in the Greenhouse area of Stockholm Furniture Fair (+ slideshow). More about Silje Nesdal launches furniture collection for compact living
Stockholm 2015: a trio of designers shaped this upholstered chair for Swedish furniture brand Blå Station to be as narrow as possible without losing its functionality. More about Blå Station's Poppe chair is just 33 centimetres wide
Stockholm 2015: Sweden's Note Design Studio and Denmark's Norm Architects have collaborated to design a collection of tables with mixed-and-matched marble tops for furniture brand Menu. More about Note Design Studio and Norm Architects design patchwork marble tables for Menu
Stockholm 2015: this chair by Swedish-French design duo Fredick Färg and Emma Marga Blanche features a metal frame that mimics the shape of trouser braces. More about Swing-era trouser braces inform Färg & Blanche's Frankie chair
Stockholm 2015: Beckman's College of Design student Matilda Beckman has used dust from the floors of vintage clothes shops to form a collection of furniture. More about Matilda Beckman makes furniture out of "really gross" dust
Stockholm 2015: furniture giant IKEA has collaborated with London designer Ilse Crawford to launch a range of cork and natural-fibre homeware products. More about IKEA launches "deliberately low key" collection by Ilse Crawford