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Designers Scott, Rich and Victoria of London and Auckland have created this collection of oak and metal furniture.

The collection, called Tabbed, consists of a dining chair and two matching tables.

The pieces are constructed from folded sheet metal and hand-finished oak elements, with legs that can be interchanged for different shapes.

The collection was first presented at the London Design Festival 2010.

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The following is from the designers.

TABBED Collection

Consisting of dining chairs and matching tables the TABBED collection is a family of products defined by interaction between folded planes of sheet metal and hand finished oak elements. With refined details and sophisticated folds the TABBED collection is an elegant marriage of materials.

Customizable front legs allow each group to have with its own creative and playful individuality. Available in a variety of natural and stained colour combinations to suit any interior setting.

The TABBED collection by Scott, Rich & Victoria was first presented as part of their ‘Year Apart’ Collection at ‘The Tramshed’ event during the London Design Festival 2010.  The complete collection was designed over the course of twelve months, across twelve time zones.

Overcoming the challenges of working from both sides of the globe (the studio split between London and Auckland) encouraged unique approach to the design process.

“Utilising the internet isn’t meant to simulate real life, and – in many ways – that’s one of the strengths of collaborating online, since it forces us to think and work differently.  This influences our process, the pieces, their individuality.”

Scott, Rich & Victoria is the inter-disciplinary design partnership of New Zealanders Scott Fitzsimons and Richard Hartle, who began working together in London in late 2007.

The pair established their international creative studio in September 2009, based in both London and Auckland, accessible to international manufacturers across Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.

The studio works on a diverse range of projects encompassing furniture, lighting, interiors, exhibitions and product based experiments.

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Parents often ask me what chores and responsibilities are applicable for toddlers. They want to start teaching their children about putting away their things, but they also don’t want to bestow unreasonable demands upon two, three, and four year olds.

Young children are eager to be independent, and helping your child learn skills that foster this independence as well as acquire valuable organizing concepts are a great place to start the teaching process. The following are a handful of suggestions for responsibilities that are appropriate for toddlers and some recommendations for teaching these skills:

• Hanging up her coat. Put a couple 3M removable utility hooks on the back of the coat closet door at a low enough height that your daughter can reach the hook but high enough so her coat won’t drag on the ground. When your daughter comes inside the house, let her be responsible for putting her coat on her hook.
• Wiping down the bathroom countertop. Get a small step stool for your child to use in the bathroom when he is brushing his teeth, combing his hair, and washing his hands. Have a stack of wash cloths or hand towels within reach that he can use to wipe his face, dry his hands, and then wipe up any spilled and splashed water from the counter top.
• Making her bed each morning. Pulling up the sheet and pulling up the comforter are tasks that most kids can handle by two and a half.
• Putting dirty clothes in the hamper. Have a hamper that your child can easily put clothes into and see the clothes inside the basket. After you assist your child in getting out of his clothes and into his pajamas, hand him his clothes and ask him to put them in the hamper. As your child gets older and can dress himself, simply monitor him to ensure that he continues with this responsibility.
• Setting the table. By age three, most children will be able to set a table with minimum supervision. Place setting placemats are terrific for helping children learn where cups, plates, silverware, and napkins typically go on a table.
• Returning toys to their storage locations. After playing with toys, toddlers should return them to their proper storage bins or shelves. As a result, storage shelves and bins need to be within your child’s reach. Label bins and lips of shelves with adhesive tags that have an illustration and title of what belongs in each space. Programs like Microsoft Word that include clip art are great for finding toy illustrations. It takes younger children significantly more time to pick up toys than older children, so be sure to leave time in your schedule for your child to pick up her toys before needing to move on to another activity.

At age two and three, most of these chores will need some level of supervision. The closer your child gets to elementary school age, however, the less supervision she will need to successfully carry out the task.

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Director Henry Cowling filmed out of the window of a moving train for the seven seconds it takes to pass through Ravenscourt Park station in London – the result is a one-take slow motion video for band SixToes…

Inspired by a YouTube clip called Glide2 by StrayLight, Cowling’s film (a Unit9 production) involved 40 volunteers, a Photron BC-2 camera, and generated plenty of strange looks from fellow passengers, not to mention a brief brush with confused London Underground staff.

To organise the filming, Cowling set up a Facebook page for a flashmob event set to take place in west London. The band also asked friends and fans to sign-up for the event, but the precise details were kept secret.

“Everyone showed up in Hammersmith station at 8.30am on a miserable Sunday morning in February,” Cowling explains. “We all got into costume and then practiced the actions by everyone lining up along a pavement, while I rang past with a camcorder shouting action and pretending to be the train.

“Then all the volunteers got on the tube to Ravenscourt Park while I stayed at Hammersmith with the camera operator and DP. Once we had word that everyone was roughly in position on the platform of Ravenscourt, we got on the next Piccadilly line train, which goes straight through the station at high-speed on its way to Acton Town. The last thing I did as we were getting on the train was to send a text message letting the people in the platform know we were coming.

“The train took seven seconds to pass through the station. It’s pure luck that everyone performed their actions well and on cue. We attempted another take coming back the other way from Hammersmith, but the station guards came out onto the platform right in the middle of this and told us to leave.

“The scariest thing about the day was that the camera – a Photron BC-2 – is usually used for military testing and as a result looks… rather bomb-like. To hit record I actually had a cable leading from the camera with a big red button, while the power cables led to the operator’s backpack. Needless to say we got some very suspicious looks!”

Cowling’s footage, replayed at 500 frames a second means that the final video runs to around three-and-a-half minutes.

Low Guns, written and performed by SixToes. A unit9 production. Director: H Cowling. DoP: Carl Burke. AD: Richard Rowe. Cam Op: Edward Edwards. Online Editor: Sarah Zappon. Inspired by StrayLight, Glide2. Cowling thanks Michelle Craig, Patt Foad, Anne Carruthers and everyone who helped out and took part.

The aborted second take

The volunteers wait at Hammersmith tube station

Milan 2011: here’s another project from Lausanne studio Big-Game (see their furniture in  our earlier story) this time a series of cork toy boats for Portugese company Materia.

The toys, titled Bote, have a cork base with an interchangeable plastic mast or cabin.

The series will be on show at Via San Marco 38, Milan, April 12–17.

Photographs are by Julien Chavaillaz.

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Here’s a tiny bit of text from the designer:

BIG-GAME exhibit the BOTE for Materia.

BIG-GAME has made a series of floating boats in cork and plastic for the new Portuguese company Materia.

It will be launched in Milan during the design week April 12–17 at Via San Marco 38.

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