Furniture designers love chairs. More than any other piece, it’ s a fertile ground for expression and innovation. A well-designed chair is essential to our comfort in a way a table or lamp isn’t.
After designing footwear for several years, Martin Keen decided that he could apply the same knowledge he used to create comfortable shoes to furniture, resulting in an unorthodox workstation that has users sitting and standing at the same time.
Axel Yberg and his firm, Akke, make what he calls functional art. That translates to fun creations like this Pingtuated Equilibripong table, which may or may not be the most beautiful ping-pong table in existence.
When it comes to audio technology, there are two unfortunate trends that are quite prevalent: listeners are ambivalent towards sound quality and few audio products are built to last generations. In fact, audio equipment has become rather invisible in the home. Symbol Audio, a company with a background in furniture design and marketing, hopes to reverse that trend with its Modern Record Console, on display at ICFF 2012.
