Winner of the ICFF Editor’s Choice Award for Best New Designer. corona is a solar powered outdoor lighting system which can be staked to the ground, attached to a wall, or simply placed on a table top. The photovoltaic cell transforms sunlight into energy during the day, and its led automatically starts to glow when the sun sets.” Resembling flowers when planted they provide a wonderful glow to outdoor spaces.

recent work from giles miller of farm designs “has been focused on provoking an appreciation for the potential diversity in sustainable design.” ex-box is an intelligent and cost effective design. built with a grid system an endless amount of sections can be used, resulting in a beautiful piece of furniture with patterns of light and shadow.

unique lighting concept by tobias wong bottles sunshine. they collect solar energy during the day and emit a warm glow at night. using energy efficient led it will provide 5 hours light with each charge.

“Chista explores the roots of primitivism and modernism, the found and the sculptural in the everyday and the monumental, expressed through furniture, lighting and installations.” Shown above the Meteor table, is made from reclaimed wood from southeast asia, and cut from the root structure of a teak tree making each table unique. The patina-like surface has been created by a french polishing technique and not the result of staining.

Created by australian designer Ilan El “Rain is a playful pendant that will delight all that come across it. A sensual object that suspends from the ceiling, delighting the senses through sight and sound. It’s an interactive light – moving the rods creates a delicate string of sound and ripple reflections. Inspiration for this design came from Feng Shui and the desire to create an illuminated chime”  It uses simple and readily available materials. The lights inside hang on the electrical cords that power them, and Aluminium was chosen for its sustainable qualities, being a recyclable material.

designed by Aya Koike, sofa brick takes its reference from a traditional upholstered furniture but reinvents itself into modular soft “brick” made of cork for building furniture, which blurs the line between furniture, floor and wall. it is a flexible system in that it is muli functional and allows the consumer to part of the creative process, as well as being made of sustainable material.

it is part of collection called “PARASITE FURNITURE, which will involve existing environments in a structure of design. It is a challenge to cancel the boundaries between people, objects, and environments which should live together and help each other.”

kirei is dedicated to bringing beautiful natural materials to the market, using sustainable and non toxic materials without sacrificing design. their first product kirei board “is an engineered panel product constructed from the stalks of the Sorghum plant grown around the world for food. The stalks left over after harvest are heat-pressed with a non-toxic adhesive to form lightweight, strong, unique Kirei Board.” iannone:sanderson has produced several pieces of furniture using kirei including the beautiful signature 2.0 cabinet shown above.

Renewed materials has developed an innovative new recycled composite product called alkemi which is created by binding aluminium scrap with resin resulting in a striking new solid surface material. It comes in a variety of colours, patterns and can be custom shaped, sanded, buffed to fit a variety of applications including countertops, tables, sinks, and tiles. It is visually compelling, definitely worth checking out.

ttutra is an environmentally friendly material made up of thousands of pieces of recycled glass, allowing the designer an infinite range of possibilities. award winning eight inch is a sustainable design company and sole suppliers of ttutra, formed by gary nicholson furniture/industrial designer.

“ttutra is real jewel of a material, beautiful, hard wearing, stain and slip resistant, low maintenance and 85% recycled material. what other material gives you all that and comes in an infinite palette of colours?”