Chair

Enjoy a nice snuggle, but find your legs start going to sleep when your significant other spends any significant time on your lap? Thanks to the wonders of carbon fiber, you are now able to canoodle with lovers of any size on a seat purpose built for the job.

When it's not busy making cars, Nissan spends its time ruminating on highfalutin concepts like connected driving and the fuel station of the future. Thankfully, it's taken a break from these pipe dreams to work on something altogether more worthwhile for humanity: A self-driving queue-busting chair.

Sitting for long periods of time is known to be bad for your health. The Sprang Chair encourages active sitting while also providing lumbar support, thereby being a legitimate alternative to ergonomic office chairs and exercise balls.

What do you get when you cross a chair and a hammock? Why, Chammock, of course. Chammock is a small and compact chair that takes up very little room in your backpack, but which offers a comfortable chair when unfolded and hung between two trees.

Timber furniture is made from a tree that has been cut down, sawed up, and stuck back together again. Wouldn't it make more sense to grow a tree straight into a piece of furniture? Gavin Munro thought so, now he grows all sorts of furniture straight out of the ground.

Girella is a small armchair which folds out to become an occasional bed, as and when it's needed. This makes it a versatile piece of furniture which would be perfect for a child's room where space is at a premium.

With Kids Imagination Furniture, The Cardboard Guys are hoping to foster children's creativity, allowing them to build and decorate their own desk and chair set. Made to be strong, easy to build, and recyclable, Kids Imagination Furniture offers a viable alternative to more traditional sets.

Cozy Room is a personal isolation chamber allowing an individual to take some time away from prying eyes. By sitting in the high-backed leather chair and pulling yourself forward, you're encased in a small cubicle with everything you could need close to hand. Except human company, obviously.

The more we hear about the health risks involved with sitting too much, the more popular standing desks become. Such desks can be expensive, though. The StorkStand offers a clever alternative. It's a mini standing desk that attaches to the back of your office chair.

Benjamin Rollins Caldwell exults in materials, designing entire lines of furniture from a wide range of castoffs. His latest creations form his remarkable Binary collection of living room furniture, in which all components come from old PCs and defunct electronics.

Benjamin Vermeulen has designed a new range of flatpack furniture that simply snaps into place using magnets, no tools required.

Although there are differing opinions regarding the health benefits of using a fit ball as a seat, a lot of people swear by it. That said, they don't always do it, because it just makes them feel a little too silly. That's why Balance King has created its normal-looking Active Chair.