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Olivia Bossy's sculptural furniture is inspired by everyday moments
Wallpaper* Future Icons: based in Sydney Olivia Bossy turns visuals and ideas into sculptural furniture
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Rio Kobayashi turns traditional furniture making on its head
Wallpaper* Future Icons: how Austrian-Japanese designer Rio Kobayashi reinvents traditional furniture through diverse influences and collaborations
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Rino Claessens’ modular furniture experiments with ceramic design
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Rino Claessens turns his love for ceramics into experimental large-scale modules and compositions
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Inside Seongil Choi's experiments with materials and form
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Seoul-based Seongil Choi works across a variety of materials, with experimental approaches at the heart of his work
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Parti Studio swing between architecture and design through research and experimentation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: London-based architecture practice Parti made its lighting design debut this year
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Giles Nartey translates African rituals into bold design objects
Future Icons: Giles Nartey's boundary-pushing work combines teaching, research and design
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Matan Fadida's work merges comfort and formal experimentation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: based in London, Matan Fadida's work can be described as industrial minimalism achieved with honest materials, and includes objects, furniture and wearables
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Christian+Jade's work starts from material investigation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: based in Copenhagen, Jade Chan and Christian Hammer Juhl work with a variety of materials, changing their perception through new concepts and contexts
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Jialun Xiong distills her inspirations in minimalist designs
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Jialun Xiong is reinventing minimalism with her pared-back yet deeply referential interiors and furnishings
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Future Icons: Alexis & Ginger's furniture starts from found pictures
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Brooklyn-based Alexis & Ginger are inspired by pictures found in the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection to create their elegant and surreal furniture and lighting
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Six Dots Design’s Joseph Ellwood creates furniture to represent his generation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Joseph Ellwood of Six Dots Design on his love of making, forms that reflect fluid identities, and his work for Rimowa
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Wilkinson & Rivera reinvent traditional wooden furniture from their London workshop
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Wilkinson & Rivera’s Grant Wilkinson and Teresa Rivera are reinventing furniture classics in wood
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Andu Masebo’s stripped-back designs are informed by materials and manufacturing
Wallpaper* Future Icons: designer-to-watch Andu Masebo talks about being inspired by London and the practicalities of making
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Lighting design studio Trueing combines the utilitarian and the decorative
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Aiden Bowman and Josh Metersky of Trueing combine backgrounds in art history and engineering to create exquisite lighting designs
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Kusheda Mensah’s modular furniture compositions promote social interactions
Among Wallpaper’s Future Icons, designer Kusheda Mensah of Modular by Mensah talks about social spaces and finding inspiration in her heritage
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Raphael Kadid’s designs experiment with light and structure
Among Wallpaper’s ‘Future Icons’, Basel-based Raphael Kadid is an architect by training but is setting the design world alight
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Tom Chung’s designs are inspired by the great outdoors
Designer Tom Chung – tipped as a Future Icon by Wallpaper* –talks about being inspired by his Canadian childhood and the meaning of friends in the industry
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Mac Collins explores identity and empowerment through design
Part of Wallpaper’s Future Icons series, Mac Collins tells us about his design work, and inspiring the next generation
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Nifemi Marcus-Bello is the Nigerian designer shaping Africa’s designscape
Among Wallpaper’s ‘Future Icons’, Lagos-based designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello speaks of creating a local manufacturing network and documenting design production in Africa
