This year, furniture designs ventured out of the home onto the streets and into prisons. Design reporter Jennifer Hahn picks out her top 10 projects for our review of 2019, from public seating in Beirut to silicone chairs.

CrossFit by Schimmel & Schweikle
Renders become real in this collection from Janne Schimmel and Moreno Schweikle, as minimal furniture designs are digitally mashed up with furry, blob-like shapes and finally translated into actual furniture.
Rather than using 3D renders to visualise an existing concept, CrossFit is an experiment in letting the unrealistic, unexpected ways that materials behave in computer models push the boundaries of what is possible in a physical object. Find out more about Schimmel & Schweikle's CrossFit?

Cell Furniture by Central Saint Martins students and HMPPS
This year's Central Saint Martins degree show featured a collection of multi-purpose cell furniture, created by a group of 16 students in partnership with prisoners and prison staff.
The prototypes ? which include a stool that also functions as a toilet bowl cover and a cardboard rocking chair that works as a low desk and shelf ? are meant to make life for inmates more comfortable while imparting them with vocational skills through taking responsibility for their production.
Find out more about the Cell Furniture project?

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