The Sezz Collection was conceived when French designer Christophe Pillet and Pennsylvania-based Emeco collaborated on a seating line for the Sezz Hotel in Saint-Tropez, France. Made of 80% recycled aluminum, the pieces in the line, including stools and swivel, side, and lounge chairs, are treated, welded, and brushed in the same 77-step, handcrafted process used since the 1940s to create the original 1006 Navy chair.

Inspired by Hearst Castle, the "little something" William Randolph Hearst asked architect Julia Morgan (1872-1957) to build in San Simeon, California, in 1919 (scroll down to watch video), Tilevera’s Hearst Castle Collection of stone, glass, and wood tile interprets the castle’s spirit in material, color, and design.

For its line of House Number tiles launched last year in collaboration with House Industries, Sausalito, California-based Heath Ceramics applies the same spinning mold technique used to craft their ceramic bowls.

After years of collaboration on custom steel architectural elements and furnishings with Seattle-based metal shop 12th Avenue Iron, Olson Kundig Architects has now designed the firm’s first line of commercially available products to be fabricated by the shop.

The Blackstone pendant, Broadleaf ceiling fixture, and Wildwood wall sconce are three new Arts & Crafts—inspired light fixtures from Portland, Oregon-based Rejuvenation.

Requiring only a knife and the instructions printed on the box, recipients of relief goods would be able to transform the packaging into temporary furnishings for a family in a refugee camp or into games or educational materials for children.

Relief packaging that can be repurposed into furnishings, a cleaner-burning wood stove that generates electricity, and an inflatable solar light are just three of the exciting new solutions that can help people in developing countries and disaster zones be healthier and more comfortable in their living and working environments.

Nearly half the world's population cooks on open fires, which kill nearly two million people every year due to wood-smoke-related diseases.

The LuminAID inflatable solar light was developed two years ago by Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta while graduate students in architecture at Columbia University.

Multidisciplinary Vancouver firm Molo has designed a line of paper- and textile-based partitions that can be used for disaster relief or homeless shelters,as well as temporary voting booths, clinics, schools, or any situation where there is the need to set up a series of adjustable, private rooms.