Top 30 Furniture Designs in 2008 H1

Face it, your couch is ugly and it’s time for an innovative upgrade.  To inspire your next purchase, this gallery features the 30 furniture design in 2008.  As always, the ranking is based on our traffic volumes.

Personally, I’d like a relaxation workstation and I’d like to turn my washing machine in a lamp (which apparently, can be done).

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Top 30 furniture design

1. Levitation Furniture - Hoverit Floating Lounger (GALLERY)

This is not a prop from “Future MD” or the classic “Barbarella.”

It’s a Hoverit magnetic lounger. The chair levitates because of the magnets in the base and on the lounger. You know - the magic of Perez… [More]

2. Futuristic Custom Desk - Vision One Computer Desk (GALLERY)

Look at this desk and tell me you don’t think of banging on those pads like Larry Mullen of U2. Well, budding skin-banger, this is not for that purpose. The Vision One Computer Desk is for working or gaming.… [More]

3. Ergonomic Relaxation Workstations - The SurfChair

Internet addicts just got another shot in the arm with the ergonomic SurfChair workstation. The brain child of Kenneth Lylover, the SurfChair is designed to mimic the laid back, relaxed style of a La-Z… [More]

4. Turn Your Washing Machine Into a Lamp - Reestore Ideas (GALLERY)

Since recycling is on everyone’s mind, the designers at Reestore have been turning what some would consider “no longer of any use” into fully-functioning household furniture. The ideas Reestore have come… [More]

5. Earth Furniture - Lawn Chair + Lawn Couch (GALLERY)

How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? Yeah, this is not your typical piece of furniture.

Add some alive furniture to your lawn or garden with these neat looking environmental chair and couch.… [More]

6. Top 14 Incredible Bookshelves (SUPER GALLERY)

We’ve seen a lot of awesome bookcases on Trend Hunter, so it was about time we created a super gallery to showcase them all.

There’s something irreplaceable about holding paper publications that… [More]

7. Skateboard Furniture - Skate Study House

Pierre-André Senizergues, the owner of Etnies Shoe Co. along with Gil De Le Bon Lapointe, have developed a collection of furniture for an upcoming exhibition in Paris.

Skaters and snowboarders has been… [More]

8. 25+ Space Saving & Transforming Designs + Dining & Pool Fusion Table (SUPER GALLERY)

The hottest trend in design these days is multi-functional furniture that saves space by replacing multiple pieces with one. For example, it is awesome and fun to have a pool table in your apartment or… [More]

9. Furniture Can Change Your Thoughts - Mind Chair (GALLERY)

The Mind Chair is the creation of London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank and is an amazing chair that utilizes sensory substitution technology developed in the 1960s to send and display high-definition… [More]

10. Barbed Wired Crib - Baby Furniture by John Greg Ball

This crib is not really designed with barbed wire. It just looks like it. The design is supposed to mimic and make light of the physical restraints and many spatial limitations that human beings create… [More]

11. Ingenious Flat Pack Furniture - Small Space Living Made Eco-Easy (GALLERY)

Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard.

There is a range of home decor items and furnishing availabe in thsi… [More]

12. Bleeding Paint Chairs - Anna ter Haar Designs (GALLERY)

These brilliant chairs by Anna ter Haar simply demand admiration. The white chairs appear to be bleeding rainbows of wet paint, the fantastic hues dripping from holes drilled in the corners.

The vibrant… [More]

13. Table for The Book Lovers - The ‘Ex Libris’ 2008 by MOCO (GALLERY)

Inspired by its own 2004 Ptolomeo and Ptolomeo Wall book shelf designs, Italian company MOCO presented a new table design, the Ex libris, at the Maison&Object;in France, January 25-29, 2008. A very cool… [More]

14. Milk Splatter Chairs - Splash Lounge

The Splash Lounge is a super creative, fun chair that is inspired by the splash a water drop makes when it hits a solid surface. Designed by Michael L. Wendel, Splash Lounge is the perfect piece of furniture… [More]

15. Luxury DIY Furniture - Contemporary Woodwork Classes (GALLERY)

If you really love woodworking, you now have the opportunity to take classes to learn to create art pieces like these ones in gallery.

The featured pieces from FineFurniture.com are a good sample of the… [More]

16. Edible Furniture - Biodegradable Starch Chair by Max Lamb

The Starch Chair by Max Lamb evokes in me strong hope for the future of green furniture design. The chair shown above is created by squirting out a continuous tube of starches which are layered so that… [More]

17. BookShelf Adjusts Shape to Contents - Elastica BookShelf (GALLERY)

I like the concept of this bookshelf which dynamically adjusts its shape to whatevere you put inside it. The Elastica Bookshelf, designed by Arianna Vivenzio, is basically a large elastic bandage stretched… [More]

18. 22 Player Foosball - Amstel Table Football XXL (GALLERY)

If a normal foosball table for two or four is not big enough for you, how about this “extra extra large” table?

The Table Football XXL can accommodate two entire soccer teams of 22 players!

The monster… [More]

19. Unique Home Designs - The Lobster Chair (GALLERY)

Opting for a fresh and unique design, Lund & Paarmann designed the Lobster Chair for Verikon Furniture. I particularly like how they connected the chair’s body to the metal base in way that makes it look… [More]

20. All Terrain Wheelchair - Tank Chair Mk II (CES 2008)

Designed with the comfort level and problems of disabled people, the Tank Chair Mk II is a powerful wheelchair ready to roll in all kinds of weather and terrains. It was unveiled at CES 2008 in Las Vegas… [More]

21. Taking Woodworking to New Levels - Sexy Wood Furniture (GALLERY)

“Would you like to come upstairs and see my wood?” Mario Philippona is inspired by the woman’s form and is interpreting it using undeniably beautiful wood. He recognizes the way women use fashion, fitness… [More]

22. Suspended Pod Furniture - Hanging Chairs Collection (GALLERY)

The incredible Hanging Chairs collection, designed by Nick Rawcliffe for Raw Studio, is made from sustainable materials using simple manufacturing processes. The collection is ultra cool and has three… [More]

23. Game Controller Furniture - Coffee Table / Storage Box / NES Controller Works! (GALLERY)

What an awesome idea and execution. Kyle Downes wanted a convenient place to store his growing collection of video games, but instead of settling for a normal storage box, he came up with this totally… [More]

24. Color Coded Homes - Rainbow Bookshelf (GALLERY)

A lot of people make fun of me for going crazy with highlights and color coding, but the Rainbow Bookshelf takes organization but hue to an extreme.

Chotda organized his extensive library by jacket color,… [More]

25. Eco-Friendly Furniture With Flair - Creative Cartons by Les Cartonnistes (GALLERY)

What is flexible, sturdy, costs practically nothing, gets thrown around, and is taken for granted? If you think that cardboard is basically useless, think again.

When “Cartonist” Bertrande Durand-Jenny… [More]

26. Hovering Furniture - Star Wars Armchair

If you’ve ever seen Star Wars and wanted to lavish your house with the stylish Jedi furnishing, you’ll be happy to hear that it is not only available in a galaxy far, far away. Very literally Keith… [More]

27. Fancy Folding Furniture - Case Coffee Table

There are card tables, those flimsy cardboard things with folding legs that we use in our basements to play cards. And then, there is the Case Coffee Table, one made of birch wood and spring loaded locking… [More]

28. Energy Efficient Flueless Fireplace - Smeg For Retro Comfort (GALLERY)

As the chill settles in, imagine how fun it would be to have this 50s style flueless gas fire. It would bring loads of fun, beautiful retro styling, and functionality to your home.

The Smeg flueless… [More]

29. Silk and Gold Concept Chair - Lussedia from Gianni Orsini (GALLERY)

Beautiful and handsome. I’m not just talking about the models either.

This super luxurious Lussedia Chair would make even a sultan sigh. The design is a concept that is to be the latest addition to the… [More]

30. 11 Pieces of Living Decor (SUPER GALLERY) (GALLERY)

With available living space in urban areas on a steady decline, not everyone can afford a nice garden or balcony to grow their plants. As a result, designers are adjusting; rather than taking your furniture… [More]