16 Independent Designers and Studios to Discover at WANTED at ICFF 2025

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), North America’s premier platform for global design, returns to New York’s Javits Center on May 18-20, 2025. This year’s theme, “Designing in Harmony,” celebrates human-centered, multi-sensory, and multicultural approaches that reflect the diversity of our global design landscape.

Against a backdrop of economic and political changes, ICFF 2025 responds thoughtfully to evolving market conditions while encouraging international collaboration. The fair creates an immersive environment where craftsmanship, sustainability, and human connection are prioritized. Over three days, thousands of designers, architects, developers, and buyers will gather to experience the latest innovations in furniture, lighting, seating, textiles, and more.

As ICFF Brand Directors Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat explain, “Creativity and empathy are the foundational principles that should continue to guide our industry as we shape the future. Its mission is to design spaces, products, and experiences that address the needs of tomorrow, creating a future that is both optimistic and sustainable.”

A highlight of ICFF 2025 is WANTED, a dedicated platform nurturing tomorrow’s creative leaders. As Hainaut and Pijoulat note, “Having the WANTED section under the same roof with larger companies helps create an opportunity for visitors to discover those independent designers and studios. The way we design the WANTED area is also helping to capture the interest of the visitors as we envision it as an exhibit on its own.”

WANTED encompasses several key initiatives: Launch Pad, Look Book, the Design Schools Workshop, and a dedicated Schools Showcase—all designed to empower emerging talent with mentorship, visibility, and valuable industry connections.

For those interested in experiencing ICFF 2025 firsthand, ADORNO is pleased to offer complimentary access to the fair. Click the link here and use promo code DAPMADORNO during registration.

aeny studio

aeny studio is where reclaimed materials are transformed into sculptural, functional art. Founded by Native Brazilian-Canadian artist Nayara Nascimento, the studio reimagines everyday remnants as narrative-driven pieces that bridge heritage and modernity. Each handcrafted work embraces imperfection, sustainability, and raw innovation—challenging conventional boundaries and redefining design as an experience.

Noiro Studio

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Noiro Studio is a premium design brand offering handcrafted pieces that are both aesthetically pleasing and thought-provoking. Founded by Myrto Grigori, a Greek designer with a background in architecture, interior design, and technology, Noiro Studio is inspired by the toroidal universe theory. Our debut product, the Cosmos lamps, reflects our commitment to craftsmanship and innovation.

Studio Kloak

Studio Kloak is a sustainable zero-waste design studio focusing on lighting and functional objects. Each object is made from recycled materials, reduces global waste, and reimagines materiality and forms into a Collectible design. Imperfect, sculptural, and bespoke, each collection re-contextualizes sculpture through the prism of utility.

Pablo Ejarque-González

Spanish designer now calling Brooklyn home, Pablo weaves together the technical precision of his Industrial Design Engineering studies at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) with the bold, avant-garde spirit nurtured during his MFA in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This melodious blend gives rise to a distinct vision of contemporary design, where the rigor of technique dances with the freedom of artistic exploration. With over five years immersed in the world of contract furniture manufacturing, his expertise has shaped hotels and restaurants across Europe. Along the way, he has co-signed numerous product patents in partnership with his clients, each one a quiet mark of his creative genius.

Studio NAWA

Studio NAWA is a creative partnership between Alina Nazmeeva and John Wagner, based in Chicago, Illinois. This collaboration fuses Alina’s background as a media artist with John’s expertise as an architect, merging their passions for digital simulation and material assembly. Alina, a Tatarstan-born media artist and educator, crafts works integrating XR, AI, textile, physical installation, digital simulation, and gaming engines as storytelling devices and as sites of critique. John, a practicing architect, creates spaces and assemblages with a honed sensibility and understanding of detail, materiality, and respecting the longevity of finely crafted objects and spaces. Together, their creative process is non-linear, oscillating between material and digital experimentation.

ināt.

ināt furniture is a small, independent furniture studio based in Montreal, Canada. With a deep passion for craftsmanship, the studio is dedicated to creating timeless pieces that are both functional and visually compelling. Each item is handcrafted using high-quality wood and traditional joinery techniques, ensuring durability and integrity in every design. Celebrating the natural beauty and character of wood, ināt furniture emphasizes thoughtful design and meticulous construction. The studio’s mission is to craft furniture meant to be treasured—not discarded—offering heirloom-quality pieces that become lasting parts of any home or business.

ORFEO STUDIO

ORFEO STUDIO was established in 2024 in Italy after an intense multi-year study of the concept of the matter and the parallel development of bespoke projects. The processing and treatment of acquired metals is very dissimilar to each other and are distinguished by the interaction of styles, designs and contaminations of different eras. This process of continuous evolution, leads to perpetual rupture and change in the conceptual view of matter.

Design VA

Design VA endeavors to bring ordinary objects to life by giving them unique character and personality, inspired by personal memories and stories. They believe our most treasured belongings are those that connect with our experiences. With meticulous craftsmanship and an unwavering dedication to their craft, VA aims to create objects that establish a deep and meaningful connection with their users, becoming cherished companions along life’s journey. Prioritizing handcrafted design over mass production, their work stands out for its exploration in form, originality, and attention to detail.

Streicher Goods

Streicher Goods, a Brooklyn-based design studio, specializes in design and functional ceramics. Ethan Streicher, the founder and artist behind the brand, is informed by his experience as a graphic designer encompassing the principles of color, shape, form, simplicity, and of course, impact on the user into his work. Each piece is meticulously hand-made and hand-painted, blending materials and processes to create contrast between human craftsmanship and machine precision.

Nathan Chintala

Nathan Chintala is a Brooklyn-based furniture designer and maker whose journey began in an unexpected place: a computer science degree. While studying, he enrolled in a basic woodworking course at Brooklyn Woods—and never looked back. After gaining hands-on experience at several furniture and millwork companies, Nathan began developing his own designs and debuted his first collection at ICFF in 2021. Rooted in the traditions of early American cabinetmakers, Nathan’s work emphasizes sustainable materials and bench-made techniques. His ongoing drive to build—both as a fabricator and a designer—continues to shape his thoughtful, quietly expressive approach to furniture.

Studio Lisa Sacco

Lisa Sacco is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in sensory furniture and objects. Experimentation and research underpin her design practice which aims to foster material engagement and deepen our sensitivity to the world around us. Simple yet complete gestures serve as both encounters and confrontations within our system of design and use of everyday objects. Calculated intervention allows her to bend meaning, usurp convention, and allow objects to speak for themselves.

Urbs Studio

Urbs Studio is an award winning Interdisciplinary design studio located in Austin Texas led by Alyson Beaton with partner Matt Beaton. Their work is largely self initiated but they consult and collaborate on projects of all sizes. Although Urbs expertise and projects span design disciplines, the studio approaches all projects as “design” and attempts to negotiate form, function, beauty, and cultural relevance/ discourse.

Lauren Goodman

Studio Lauren Goodman is a sculptural furniture studio using discarded objects and renewable materials to create dynamic collectible design. Goodman’s process begins by sourcing materials from regional waste streams and local suppliers. Through creative investigation into waste as a raw material and combining foraged objects with traditional materials and fabrication methods, she seeks to elevate discarded objects, transforming them into unique one of a kind works. Goodman’s work is more than traditional upcycling. She is actively working to add beautiful and functional solutions to the ongoing challenge of local waste.

DUSKSHAPED

Founded in Brooklyn in 2019, DUSKSHAPED makes experimental, witty design objects in the most sustainable common building material: metal. In these works, a longstanding obsession with linework and negative fields and a background in the logic-based disciplines of philosophy and music collide in a three-dimensional practice. DUSKSHAPED’s design ethos flows from a preoccupation with rigid order — and the moments when chaos pierces that order. In those moments lies the sublime. DUSKSHAPED is organized around environmental parsimony. This begins with steel and aluminum, the only common materials that are infinitely recyclable.

Sangare

SANGARE studio is based in Montreal, Canada. They are a team of multidisciplinary designers executing sustainable projects. Each project is centered on understanding the client’s needs, and they develop a targeted approach that combines cutting-edge design with sustainability. Every detail matters, and they collaborate with the local industry to bring dynamic interiors, thoughtfully designed furniture, and coveted products to life.

ANOTHER WORLD STUDIO

Welcome to Another.World, where creativity runs wild and Youtian Duan and Yingxi Ji are the creative duo behind it all. The pair envisions a world where people can confront their inner demons with laughter, where vulnerability is celebrated, and self-acceptance is the ultimate goal. Through their innovative and humorous projects, Duan and Ji aim to create a safe and inclusive space for individuals to explore their inner worlds, encouraging them to embrace their shadows and emerge stronger, more resilient, and authentically themselves.

Additional Information:

ICFF Night Out returns this year with expanded events from May 16-20 across New York City locations including NoMad, SoHo, Tribeca, and Midtown. In partnership with NYCxDESIGN and media partners Interni and aspire home and design, these events offer unparalleled networking opportunities while celebrating the vibrant design community of New York.

For those interested in experiencing ICFF 2025 firsthand, ADORNO is pleased to offer complimentary access to the fair. Click the link here and use promo code DAPMADORNO during registration.

Show dates and hours:

• Sunday, May 18th (10 AM – 6 PM)
• Monday, May 19th (10 AM – 6 PM)
• Tuesday, May 20th (10 AM – 5 PM)

Location:

Jacob Javits Convention Center

429 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States