The Step table by Michigan designer Erika Cross features an interchangeable top and base that can be stacked on top of each other at different heights, thanks to their ridged mating surfaces. More
California practice Umé Studio has created a modular sofa with bolsters, wooden units and traditional Japanese Zabuton cushions that are often used on tatami floors. More
VDF products fair: Blocks is a modular furniture collection designed by OMA with Lensvelt to offer an "abstract and almost architectural quality". More
Engineering firm Arup has designed parklets, hybrid street furniture and planters to help Liverpool's restaurants reopen as the UK's coronavirus lockdown lifts. More
VDF products fair: Seiton is a modular storage system designed by OEO Studio for Stellar Works that can double as a partition and be built in various configurations. More
Rainlight founder Yorgo Lykouria explains how a modular furniture system called BoxLife allows users to organise their living spaces, in a video produced by Dezeen for Scavolini as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
VDF products fair: The Layout sofa, created by Numen/For Use for the Croatian furniture brand Prostoria, creates a soft landscape of interconnected islands. More
VDF products fair: Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use has created the Absent sofa for furniture brand Prostoria, which is designed to create a sitting position somewhere between upright and lying down. More
This modular chair collection by Thai design studio Kaoi takes cues from the 1980s Memphis Group, featuring four graphic armrests that can be mixed and matched to offer different aesthetic "personalities". More
Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer has collaborated with American startup Cat Person on a collection of modular furniture for cats that can change as the animal grows. More
Intervention Architecture has installed shapeshifting furniture in a Barbican apartment in London, allowing it to transform from a home into a dance studio. More
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
Furniture design studio ATRA has created a modular sofa system upholstered with a hemp-based fabric. More
A lockable wardrobe and twin-sized bed figure in this modular sleeping unit, which was conceived by architecture firm Perkins and Will in response to the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. More
Russian architect Eduard Eremchuk used Tetris-like orange modular furniture on wheels to solve the problem of limited space in a tiled cafe in Rostov-on-Don. More
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. More
Using its own London office as a case study, architecture firm Gensler has created a modular furniture range for Fantoni in response to a trend for more flexible and collaborative workplaces. More
Architect Artem Zakharchenko-Halytskyi has designed a system of modular shelves made from wooden blades that can lie flat against the wall or pivot to provide a usable surface. More
Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Bisley has teamed up with designer Paul Kelley on a hand-finished modular storage system. More
Haller modular furniture can be used to create a "third space" between the workplace and the home, say Thomas Dienes of USM and Ren Yee of UNStudio in this movie produced by Dezeen during Milan design week. More
