From shaggy tassels to shimmering bioplastic, six furniture projects by emerging Dutch designers confirm a trend for colourful and textured furniture at this year's Dutch Design Week.
The festival, which took over Eindhoven last week, presented projects across a wide range of disciplines. Among this year's offerings was a selection of statement furniture pieces united by distinctly vivid hues and tactile surfaces.
Below, we've rounded up six examples by emerging designers that were unveiled at Dutch Design Week 2024.

Top: photo courtesy of Teun Zwets. Above: photo courtesy of Maori Kimura
Fringe Friends by Maori Kimura
Rotterdam-based designer Maori Kimura has created a tasselled furniture collection that explores upcycling selvage ? the frayed textile edges that accumulate as a byproduct of the weaving process. Called Fringe Friends, the project was created to give damaged or worn-out pieces of furniture a new life. Kimura wraps their frames in the multicoloured fabric edges to create "an eco-friendly invention for decorating furniture, railings and objects".

Photo courtesy of Tuen Zwets
Splitted by Teun Zwets
Splitted (top and above) is a furniture collection by Teun Zwets ? an emerging designer whose work has a cartoonish quality.
From chairs and tables to cabinets and coat racks, the collection includes unique pieces of furniture crafted from split Douglas fir wood. Each piece was finished with a gleaming coat of colourful lacquer.
"I was splitting wood...