For all the caffeine addicts, including myself, the South Korean studio He Was Born has found a solution: a Coffee Chair. The most difficult is to choose between the three colors available, black, white or brown.

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Old clothes tend to either end up in the charity bin, or in a box at the back of the closet. Artist Tobias Juretzek has been getting resourceful, compressing worn out clothes and turning them into furniture.

The chairs, called Rememberme, aim to transport the stories and expressions preserved in the garments. Casamania is in the midst of manufacturing these chairs, and for a price tag of almost US$900, they should be on the market in September this year.

This Remember That You Will Die chair by design team, Pool, is a comfortable reminder of the only two certainties in life: death and, err, faxes.

Is it a bird or is it a plane? Nah, it’s just a suitcase transformed into a chair. Of course! It’s by Sut Kutusu and it rocks (not literally).

Who needs drugs when you have these awesome squiggly chairs from the design group Nendo? Not only will only will they look good in your apartment, they will make your eyes bug out when you’re bored. Functional and trippy, The Thin Black Lines exhibit runs at Phillips de Pury and Company until October 31.

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Who said chairs had to be boring? Or practical? This range of chairs from designer brothers, Fernando and Humberto Campana, nicely blurs the line between form and functionality, art and science.