Furniture by Design is a Wellington furniture and homewares store that has been supplying furniture since 1987. The store curates furniture and homewares for real New Zealand homes, focusing on good proportions, useful materials, solid construction and pieces that do their job without overworking a room.
The range spans dining, living, bedroom and office furniture, alongside a growing homewares offering under Curio by Design, covering art, linen, home fragrance, decor, rugs and books. Furniture by Design operates online at furniturebydesign.nz as well as from its Wellington store, offering NZ-based stock, fast dispatch and Click & Collect nationwide, with a stated focus on honest pricing rather than inflated markups or fake sales.
Furniture by Design has been supplying furniture to New Zealand homes since 1987, running both an online store at furniturebydesign.nz and a physical store in Wellington.
Furniture by Design's approach starts with the room, not the product — looking at what's not working in a dining area, living room or storage setup, then finding pieces that solve it. The store focuses on good proportions, useful materials and solid construction, aiming for furniture that does its job without making a room feel overworked.
The store's furniture range covers dining, living, bedroom and office spaces. Dining options include dining chairs, bar stools, benches, dining tables and sideboards, while the living range covers sofas and ottomans, sofa beds, armchairs, coffee and side tables, entertainment units, and bookcases and storage cabinets. In the bedroom, customers can find beds and headboards, bedside tables, and dressers and tallboys, while the office range covers desks and storage.
Among its most loved pieces, Furniture by Design counts the Wagner Dining Chair, Fuji Bar Stool, Datsun Bar Stool and Chair, Zurich Dining Chair, Elbow Chair and Bari Dining Chair. The Nordik oak dining table also features prominently, often shown paired with an oak bench or Elbow Chairs in real Wellington homes.
Beyond furniture, Furniture by Design has expanded into homewares through its Curio by Design range, covering art (including collaborations like NZ Artshow x FbD, Paper Collective and Ravi Zupa), linen and bedding, home fragrance, decor items like vases and lamps, rugs through the Weave range, and books. The Hommey collection adds a bold, well-made linen range for those wanting to round out their home styling.
Furniture by Design regularly showcases its pieces installed in real Wellington-area homes, from a busy family dining room featuring the Nordik Table and Elbow Chairs, to a kitchen pairing the Nordik Dining Table and Benches with Fuji Bar Stools for contrast. These real-home features give a genuine sense of how the furniture looks once it's out of the showroom and into daily use.
Furniture by Design offers NZ-based stock with fast dispatch, along with Click & Collect available nationwide. The store also emphasises honest pricing, stating there are no inflated markups and no fake sales — just furniture priced fairly from the start.
Furniture by Design's Wellington store gives customers the chance to see pieces in person before buying, complementing the full online range available at furniturebydesign.nz for customers ordering from anywhere in New Zealand.