The Australian Furniture Design Award

The Australian Furniture Design Award (AFDA) is a biennial award that celebrates the most interesting furniture and lighting design being created in Australia today, with a particular emphasis on new design ideas, critical and creative thinking, sustainability, material development and research that explores innovative production processes. 

The Australian Furniture Design Award began in 2015 as Australia’s richest furniture design prize. The AFDA will return for Melbourne Design Week in 2024. 

Past award winners: 

• 2022 Ashley Eriksmoen, The Dream, or: the View from Here is Both Bleak and Resplendent 
• 2020 James Walsh, Anthropic bench 
• 2017 Elliat Rich, Place 
• 2015 Seaton McKeon, The Sun The Moon and Me