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Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Ercol has teamed up with Danish studio Norm Architects to create the Pennon Table, which takes design cues from airplane wings.
Made from a choice of solid ash or walnut, the Pennon Table is described by Ercol as “eye-catching”, but with an “understated beauty”.
This style is characteristic to the designers at Norm Architects, who are advocates of Scandinavian minimalism.
All elements of the table are designed to be slightly rounded, in a bid to make the interaction between user and product as comfortable, welcoming and tactile as possible.
“We wanted to create a large dining/conference table that both told the story about bringing people together in different settings, but also the story of Ercol as a brand in general,” said Norm Architects.
The designers took inspiration from the shape of airplane wings when designing the leg supports, which take the form of two wide planes of wood, connected by a thinner T-shaped framework, similar to the structure typically found in old biplanes.
The way the legs have been shaped means that they are thinnest at their edges and thickest in the middle where they connect to the “spindle” structure. According to Ercol and Norm Architects, this affords a combination of both a strong and elegant construction.
This design also references the spindles of Ercol’s classic Windsor chair in its under-frame construction, hinting back to the brand’s roots when the Windsor collection was designed in the 1950s.
After visiting Ercol’s factory in Princes Risborough – a town in Buckinghamshire, England – the Danish studio found that its production capabilities and skills in solid wood handling, steam bending and woodturning particularly stood out, and are a big part of the heritage of the company.
“This is why we decided to go for what one can almost call a hybrid between the very solid wood pieces in the legs and tabletop, in combination with the refined wood turned elements of the spindles,” explained Norm Architects.
“The contrast between the two is clear and creates a design language with a lot of character and uniqueness – depending on the angle on which the table are viewed, it stands as both heavy and lightweight in one,” the studio continued.
Available in both a large and small version, in either solid ash or solid walnut wood, the Pennon tables can also be easily disassembled, able to be flat-packed during transportation.
Find out more about Ercol on its website.
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Hutong Filter is a studio added to a house in one of Beijing‘s traditional hutongs by architecture office Zai with pixel-style shingles and timber frames connecting to a communal courtyard.
Beijing studio Zai, founded in 2018 by Yihang Zhang, introduced additional functional spaces to a house found within a courtyard typical of the city’s hutong neighbourhoods.
It is common for owners of this sort of property to erect basic brick extensions to increase their living space. This results in the courtyard being subdivided to form a network of narrow alleys.
With Hutong Filter, Zai aimed to avoid the sterile and insular feel of these ad-hoc additions by incorporating openings that retain views towards the courtyard.
“Hutong Filter seeks to find a balance between the need of the client to have privacy while not cutting off desired connection to the neighbours,” said Zhang.
The addition, which occupies a section of the courtyard in front of the house’s long elevation, contains a freestanding studio and an enclosed private patio.
Rather than creating a blank and anonymous brick structure, the studio chose to use dark slate shingles to clad the elevation and roof of the studio space.
“The grey colour and rough texture of the shingles references the traditional grey bricks in the surrounding buildings, blending easily into its context while preserving a sense of individuality,” Zhang added.
The regularly shaped shingles are treated as pixel-like components that form a modular system and help to lend the structure a sense of uniformity.
A stud wall provides the structural support for the shingles. Sections of the wall have been left exposed to create the desired sense of openness and connection between the house and courtyard.
A stud wall system was chosen for its ease of assembly and flexibility, which allowed the architecture studio to adapt it to the tight confines of its hutong site.
Stud walls also offered an opportunity to extend spacers slotted in between the timber studs beyond the plane of the wall so they become useful shelves.
This practical and space-saving storage solution is employed both inside the studio and on the wall lining the patio, which helps to ensure a seamless transition between internal and external spaces.
The studio’s end wall is infilled with glazing to allow natural light to pour into the workspace. Timber sheets lining the walls and ceiling of this room match the traditional oiled finish of the framework.
Beijing’s hutongs have been the site of several contemporary interventions aimed at modernising these traditional streets without compromising their historic importance.
Examples of innovative projects in the hutongs include a house enveloped by a paved surface that sweeps up from the ground, and a futuristic home featuring moveable furniture modules.
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For transportation designer and car enthusast Olcay Tuncay, 2021 is all set to be a very intriguing year because that’s the year Formula 1 will see radical changes, because the Concorde Agreement, which governs the sport and sets out the commercial terms on which teams compete, expires at the end of 2020.
Tuncay used this opportunity to design a car that he feels suit the immediate future of F1. Envisioned in the branding of Scuderia Ferrari and Mercedes AMG (the two biggest names in F1), the car comes with a partially covered cockpit, a feature implemented just years ago, and has an overall streamlined look with minimal drag, and also sports the 18-inch wheels that will be a part of F1’s future tire contract.
2021 is being viewed as the first big chance for Liberty Media, F1’s newest owners, to significantly implement their vision for the sport’s future, making it more entertaining.
Designer: Olcay Tuncay Karabulut
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The Wing, a co-working club dedicated to women, has opened a hub in Chicago featuring details that draw on 20th-century architect Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Prairie-style.
Located in the Fulton Market District area of Chicago, The Wing‘s new outpost marks the company’s first in the Midwest, and comes hot on the heels of its rapid expansion in the US.
Designed by The Wing’s in-house team, and in collaboration with architecture firm CallisonRTKL, the new 8,500-square-foot (790-square-metre) space continues the living room-style aesthetic and pink details of its previous hubs.
Other details, however, reference the surroundings in Chicago, such as the architecture of former city resident and celebrated 20th-century American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
“I really wanted to draw a lot of inspiration from something that was more Chicago-specific, and tried to design something for the women of Chicago with inspiration that came from the city,” Laetitia Gorra, who led the project, told Dezeen.
“So I did draw a lot of information based from Frank Lloyd Wright who built his career in Chicago.”
Among the team’s main points of reference was the Prairie architecture style, which Wright developed in response to the flat and broad landscapes of America’s Midwest. The style, which Wright “consummated” in his Robie House in Chicago, typically featured strong geometric forms and muted tones that would blend into a natural landscape.
“You’ll see a lot of hexagonal shapes throughout the space, [with] lots of muted tones,” Gorra said.
“I picked up a lot of the rust colour and the mauve colours from his designs, and then incorporated with those our branded colours of more darker hues, like navys and dark greens.”
Details include hexagonal multi-coloured tiles that cover the floor leading to the events space, where The Wing will regularly host talks and film screenings, alongside other geometric fabrics.
The Wing is the brainchild of Lauren Kassan and Audrey Gelman, and was set up to provide women with a mix of open-plan and private workspaces, as well as programmed events.
Established with women in mind, the club provides facilities that aren’t found in standard office spaces. Its location in New York’s Soho, for example, was recently expanded to include The Little Wing for children to offer a solution to a child-care issue.
In Chicago, Gorra has created beauty areas and pumping rooms for breastfeeding that are “a safe, calm, soothing extension” of the home, rather than sterile spaces often provided.
Furniture is custom-made throughout the workspace, from caned wood chairs, seats with block colours and bright yellow sofas. Different seating setups are intended to allow members the flexibility to either chat casually with girlfriends or work, and the chairs are even tailored to women’s body shapes.
“Furniture designers that we work with to be able to adjust seat height to make sure that there are economic for women, and comfortable for women to be sitting in based off of kind of the main height of women, which is five foot four inches,” Gorra said.
“We’re really tailoring all of our seating and all of our spaces to finding ergonomic seating that’s comfortable for women to be sitting at throughout the whole day,” she added.
Wooden shelves are filled with colourful books curated by New York stores the Strand and Rizzoli books. Members can borrow them too, giving a cosy library-feel to the space. Arches punctured into these shelves lead through the different areas.
The Wing Chicago also debuts the company’s cafe concept and is stocked with goods from women-owned and co-owned bakeries, cheesemakers, winemakers, breweries and farms. Artwork completing the decor is produced by female artists as well.
The Wing launched its first space in New York’s Flatiron neighbourhood in 2016, and then quickly expanded to outposts in Soho and Dumbo. It now has locations in Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and plans to open clubs in Europe.
The company’s expansion mirrors the rapid growth of other workspaces and clubs geared towards women – Seattle’s The Riveter, Toronto’s Make Lemonade, London’s AllBright and Manhattan’s Chief have all opened in recent years.
Photography is by Jasmine Pulley.
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