15 future furniture and home decor design classics to invest in now

The viral vase

£350, Wobbly Digital, bard-scotland.com

Vine Vase is the new Gluggle Jug (you know, that viral fish vase), so pass it on. Wobbly Digital, the studio name of the Glasgow-based South Korean artist Soorin Shin, produces eccentric 3D-printed objects using recycled and bio plastics. Recommended for dried flowers only. £350, Wobbly Digital, bard-scotland.com

The rustic textiles

A rising star of hand weaving, Scarlett Farrer creates wall hangings using British wool, in the natural undyed colours of the yarns. Since Farrer won the 2024 Young Weaver of the Year award, a competition supported by the interior designer Rose Uniacke, her handspun, handwoven wares have been displayed at Uniacke’s Pimlico Road store as part of London Craft Week, and again during the London Design Festival. Ready-made pieces, from £250 to £1,800, scarlweaves.com

The statement chair

Dreamt up by the Madrid design studio Esto, this chair brings a touch of childlike glee to any space. Its tubular steel frame is covered in a rich orange fabric, transforming a simple form into something unexpected, and blurring the line between furniture and squishy sculpture. From about £800, Esto Estudio, gruttacollective.com

The perfect pendant

You may recognise Rich Miller, the maker of these lights, as a ceramic artist and judge on The Great Pottery Throw Down. He is first and foremost a purveyor of exquisite, high-fire stoneware tiles, but has turned his attention to lights. Inspired by a fragment of an antique sugar cone — a mould from when sugar was sold in cone-shaped “loaves” — he found while mudlarking on the Thames foreshore, these shades explore the sugar trade and his own cultural ancestry. £2,425 each, Rich Miller, thenewcraftmaker.com

The ray of resin light

MATERIAL MATTERS /JACOB MARKS

Unusual sustainable materials in new combinations were all the buzz at the recent London Design Festival. There were objects fashioned from seaweed, salt, bioplastics produced from fungi, and — best of all — beautiful lamps by the designer Jacob Marks made of pine resin. Red RF Lamp I (above, far left), £730, jacobmarks.co.uk

The surrealist stoneware

Xanthe Somers is a Zimbabwean ceramic artist based in London whose Sisters Toil series of large-scale, glazed stoneware pieces explores “women’s work”, such as weaving, sewing, stitching and mending, and the invisibility of such crafts, which are often dismissed as hobbies. Hand-built ceramics, from £6,500 to £9,000, galerierevel.com, xanthesomers.com

The mesh mural

Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish, the founders of Wretched Flowers, based in Connecticut, have drawn from museum archives, medieval armour and folk art to create chain mail lamps and wall hangings like this one — a shimmering and cascading wall of florals that also works for a jousting tournament. Armoured accents are all the rage, you know. Price on application, sightunseen.com, wretchedflowers.com

The sustainable seat

Using a self-built mini plastic extruder to make old milk cartons, shampoo and bleach bottles into everyday objects — from loo roll holders to candelabras — James Shaw turns waste into wonder. His forms are organic and one of a kind, gnarled and slightly surrealist, including this chair, which is part of a new collection for the London Design Festival. Chair, £2,000, jamesmichaelshaw.co.uk

The sidetable

Marbled, fluted columns made by the master plasterers Ffion and Steven Blench, aka Chalk Plaster, are reminiscent of the colossal Waltham console table at Martin Brudnizki’s store, And Objects. This more manageable sidetable is made from scagliola, a 16th-century technique that uses gypsum and pigment to imitate marble. £7,800, Chalk Plaster, bard-scotland.com

The hot pots

Freya Bramble-Carter cut her teeth — and her clay — in the studio of her father, the ceramicist Chris Bramble. Although father and daughter still work side by side, her wheel-thrown pots, which blend traditional techniques with a more intuitive and expressive approach, are entirely her own. Start collecting these uniquely shaped and glazed pieces in earthy shades now. From £900, freyabramblecarter.com

The wasteless weave

The inaugural artist-maker-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, Maria Sigma is a textile designer and weaver specialising in zero-waste wares. She uses natural fibres, often undyed, resulting in a neutral palette. Her jute, cotton and wool throws and cushions are ideal for adding rich texture to a minimalist interior, but be warned, this is properly slow design – there’s an eight to ten-week wait for her work. Apricity throw, £890, thegarnered.com

The breakfast table addition

Didn’t know your life was lacking a clunky and cartoonish butter dish? You do now. This terracotta stoneware version will make your mornings— and all interactions with toast — infinitely better. And save you from rock-hard blocks in foil tombs. By the London-based artist Joe Sweeney, whose work the fashion crowd flock to, it will elicit knowing nods from discerning people invited over for brunch. £300, joesweeney.co.uk

The candy-coloured glasses

Could Emsie Sharp be the new Michael Ruh, aka England’s premier glassblower? This coloured glassware, made in her Dorset studio, the Cowshed, is the latest addition to the smart dinner table. Sharp makes traditional and modern wine glasses, lamp bases and sculptures, but these plain drinking tumblers, available in seven colours, are her must-have make. £38 each, Emsie Sharp, vigourandskills.com

The tiled bedside table

The Mancunian ceramic artist Matthew Raw was inspired by the tiled façades of train stations and big city buildings for the pieces in his Welcome collection. It features tables and cabinets clad in handcrafted and glazed tiles, producing standout pieces that are fast cropping up in some of the hottest homes around. Welcome sidetable with drawer, £5,180, Matthew Raw, thenewcraftmaker.com