The IDEA 2021 Object – Furniture and Lighting categories have been announced today with 11 rising projects and 16 professional ones shortlisted.

All shortlisted projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project.

We’ll be announcing all the shortlisted categories this week and next.

Yesterday we shared the shortlisted projects in Institutional, Public Space and Event.

Tomorrow, it’s the turn of the Sustainability, Workplace and Retail categories followed by the Colour, International and Hospitality projects on Friday.

Shortlisted projects were selected by our editorial team. A further round of judging by our judges David Flack, Jean-Paul Ghougassian, Meryl Hare, Domino Risch, Chelsea Hing, Ryan Genesin and Brahman Perera will determine the category winners, which will be announced in late November.

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Object – Furniture and Lighting (Rising) is one of our favourite categories. Free to enter, it showcases the brightest rising stars of Australian furniture and lighting design.

This category is sponsored by Harbour 1976.

Below is the full Object – Furniture and Lighting (Rising) shortlist:

• Alien Vase, The Daily Rabbit: Design and 3D Printing
• Arc Bench, Sabu Studio
• Connection = Community, Dean Norton with Sarah Hotchin
• Daylight, Dean Norton
• Dock (Bench and Side Table), Manuel Canestrini with Formacy
• Dyadic Float, Sarah Tracton
• Float, Dean Norton
• Lucere Collection, Sarah Tracton
• Onu Floor Light, Sabu Studio
• Pocket, Studio Shand
• Symbiont Coffee Table, Canestrini/Whitehead with Formacy

See the full Object – Furniture and Lighting (Rising) shortlist.

Below is the full Object – Furniture and Lighting (Professional) shortlist:

• Arbour Linear Pendant, Ross Gardam
• Breeze Collection, Ross Gardam
• Canberra Centre Mall Furniture, Pinto Tuncer
• Costa Rica Table, Christopher Boots
• Crane Lodge for Wild Luxury Co, Carole Whiting Interiors and Design with ISM Lighting
• Flask System, Edward Linacre
• Layers, Svikis
• Lil, Russell & George with James Richardson Furniture
• Meguri FTC, Sozou Studio
• NCW Workstation (Non-Corporate Workstation), Reddie
• Queen Nandi Sculptural Vase, Sandra Githinji Studio
• Scoop Bunk Bend, Lilly and Lolly
• Stool Dolly, Boardgrove Architects with MPavilion
• Strato Collezione Marmi, Biasol Studio
• The Bridge Table, Hare + Klein with manufacturer The Wood Room
• Too Tone Clock, Too Designs

See the full Object – Furniture and Lighting (Professional) shortlist.

Lead image: Stool Dolly, Boardgrove Architects with MPavilion. Photo: Haydn Cattach.

On Monday, we shared the shortlisted projects in our biggest and most highly anticipated category – Residential Single. See who made the list!