Promotion: Kiwi design studio Formway has reimagined the traditional dining room set-up for its own furniture brand Noho, creating a collection of tables and chairs that are conducive to other activities besides dining.
Noho's repertoire consists of three pieces ? the newly launched Dine table range, the Noho Move chair and the Lightly chair, which was crowned furniture design of the year at the 2023 Dezeen Awards.
Formway has designed a range of dining room furniture for Noho
The designs makes use of reclaimed and biobased materials including discarded carpets, recycled fishing nets and castor-bean bioplastic, while drawing on Formway's experience in designing office furniture. What the company had learnt about comfort and durability from making office furniture was applied to residential furniture. It also referenced "hundreds of hours of observational footage of people in their homes" that provided insight into how people use their furniture in realistic day-to-day scenarios.
...