Contemporary furniture design from Italy, Sweden, USA, Brazil and all over the world has fascinated our minds and enriched our lives. Although contemporary is defined by the existing or the occurring at this very moment, many of the designs that are labeled contemporary often describe the style but not the actual conditions in which we live in. What truly is contemporary is the fact that most of what we design ends up in the landfill.

As the name describes, Godspeed is essentially that, furniture in a one-hour time frame. They have created a unique process where they hurdle the sketching phase and go straight into building the furniture pieces by themselves, similar to a performance art piece where it occurs right there and then. This unconventional process and the raw nature of their materials offers a distinctive and individualized perspective to their work, therefore elevating its perceived and cultural value to its consumers. Their pieces range from takes on baroque, contemporary and plain experimental.