While it's definitely true that the primary materials used in furniture production haven't changed much, "no other designers (or artists) have experimented with, much less perfected, newer materials for functional furniture" feels like a genuinely wrong take, unless you're not counting sustainable materials made from plants or byproducts? There's so much amazing shit these days made from things like crushed oyster shells, kelp, pigmented foam dust, recycled compact discs... etc!
While it's definitely true that the primary materials used in furniture production haven't changed much, "no other designers (or artists) have experimented with, much less perfected, newer materials for functional furniture" feels like a genuinely wrong take, unless you're not counting sustainable materials made from plants or byproducts? There's so much amazing shit these days made from things like crushed oyster shells, kelp, pigmented foam dust, recycled compact discs... etc!