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 about Erika Cross models convertible Step table on industrial tools
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 about Umé Studio pads Zabuton Sofa with cushions used on Japanese tatami floors
Dezeen Showroom: Blocks is a modular furniture collection designed by OMA with Lensvelt to offer an "abstract and almost architectural quality". More about Blocks modular furniture by OMA for Lensvelt
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 about Arup designs parklets to help Liverpool's restaurants reopen during social distancing measures
Dezeen Showroom: 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 about Seiton storage by OEO Studio for Stellar Works
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 about Scavolini's BoxLife is a "fully adaptable concept for micro living"
Dezeen Showroom: The Layout sofa, created by Numen/For Use for the Croatian furniture brand Prostoria, creates a soft landscape of interconnected islands. More about Layout sofa by Numen/For Use for Prostoria
Dezeen Showroom: 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 about Absent sofa by Numen/For Use for Prostoria
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 about Kaoi studio designs modular Ebba chairs based on Ettore Sottsass' Memphis movement
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 about Layer and Cat Person design mix-and-match furniture for felines
Intervention Architecture has installed shapeshifting furniture in a Barbican apartment in London, allowing it to transform from a home into a dance studio. More about Barbican flat by Intervention Architecture transforms into a ballet studio
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
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
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 about Perkins and Will designs Dome sleeping unit for LA homeless shelters
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 about Cow-print tiles and Tetris-style orange furniture feature in Russian cafe
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. More about Luca Nichetto designs modular furniture to work in public spaces and the home
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 about Gensler designs Atelier furniture system to enable "reconfigurability in the workplace"
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 about Gate furniture system comprises flip-down shelves that are easy to reconfigure
Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Bisley has teamed up with designer Paul Kelley on a hand-finished modular storage system. More about BOB is a modular storage system by Paul Kelley and Bisley that offers "infinite configurations"
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 about USM and UNStudio explore "third space" between home and office with Haller modular furniture