As 2025 uncovers exciting new talent in the furniture and design industries, we are thrilled to present our defining furniture designers dedicated to shining a light on emerging talents sculpting the product design landscape.
Discover the myriad of up-and-coming designers through a list of rising stars of furniture design and their innovative creations that are reshaping the industry.
Chloe McDonald
Liverpool-born Chloe is the perfect member of the Legacy Gallery community of treasure hunters and design enthusiasts. Chloe McDonald runs her antique business with the same eye that she once turned to fashion buying. She watches trends but her work is not defined by them. She runs an online shop and a by-appointment showroom in South East London, stocked with furniture, art and decorative objects.
Orlando Pipping
Orlando Pipping's design is guided by process and material. New York-based, the designer collections explore furniture, lighting and objects.
The Orlando Pipping studio creates high-end furniture centred around metal and solid wood, exploring the idea of visual simplicity. He is driven by form, highlighting specific materials.
Bowen Liu
Bowen Liu Studio is based in Brooklyn, New York City. The furniture collection includes iconic pieces like the Helle cupboard and the Feast armchair. The lighting collection features the stunning Helle wall sconce. The objects' designs are simple, geometrical forms that promote peaceful living.
Maha Alavi
Maha Alavi LITHIC series is an ode to ancient craftsmanship. Her work starts with the most basic chair frame and extrapolates it into an exaggerated, soft form exuding comfort and softness. Alavi’s design philosophy emphasises seamless joinery and bold intuitive forms. Maha Alavi's work is defined by the fusion of vision and heritage that celebrates cultural crafts, especially Indian metal casting.
Maha Alavi is a Tokyo-based Canadian industrial designer.
Frederik Gustav
Copenhagen-based furniture designers Frederik Weber and Gustav Dupont create pieces inspired by architectural proportions to explore the idea of feeling and experimenting with design. The idea of boundaries, dualities, and proportions are means to explore new possibilities.
Ali Sha Gallefoss
Ali Sha Gallefoss's work aesthetics is close to art, expressing its artistic sensibility inspired by industrial design. His work specialises in techniques able to leave his raw material to express itself, as he reproduces the subtle movements of nature,
Ali Sha Gallefoss grew up in Bergen, Norway. He is an Oslo-based designer.
Studio Flétta
Based in Reykjavik, Iceland, Birt Rós Brynjólfsdóttir and Hrefna Sigurðardóttir founded Studio Flétta in 2018 to educate their country in the recycling art. The economy of means defines the product-making process, manufacturing objects that can be kept for a long time, and repaired. The design studio celebrates the happiness of creating things with waste. Studio Flétta, for instance, produces cushions made with old car airbags.
Jialun Xiong
Los Angeles designer Jialun Xiong creates spaces, furniture, lighting, and objects to push the boundaries of construction and explore the idea of duality. The multidisciplinary design studio explores the “ideas of duality and creative restraint in designs for spaces, furnishings, lighting, and objects” - see the studio website to learn more about the work of Jialun Xiong.
Xiong’s design objects push the boundaries of their construction with forms that provoke quiet contemplation and gentle focus.
Amwa Designs
Amwa Designs is a London-based design studio championing heritage and craft. Chrissa Amuah's product designs explore the magnetism of African design including the Asanka table, which features a glass top and a jesmonite interpretation of a traditional Asanka. The British-Ghanaian multi-disciplinary designer and curator speaks to a contemporary generation whose lifestyle is forward-thinking.
Conclusion: the creative power of these defining furniture designers
These are the up-and-coming names we will continue watching for 2025. We expect these visionary furniture designers and object artists to continue making waves in the product design industry for many years. The design talent continues as exciting and unpredictable as we love!
Going through these design talents is to enter a visionary world of creativity, beauty, fresh perspectives, and celebration of heritage and traditional craft.
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