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Japanese designer Jo Nagasaka of Sschemata Architecture Office presented this series of wooden tables with fluorescent resin encasing their gouged-out tops at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month.

Called Shrine Flat-table, the piece is based on a traditional Japanese design with eight legs.

The colour of the resin is more or less intense depending on the varying depths of the wood across its surface.

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The information below is from Jo Nagasaka:

Flat Table peeled

The Shrine Flat-table is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese Hassoku dai, which means 8 legged table. The top of the Shrine Table can be separated from its legs.

In addition to the traditional table we added a layer of coloured epoxy poured on a wooden surface which grain had been gushed out to create different depth and by doing so various intensity in colour.

Shrine Flat-table comes in 3 Heights with the following dimensions: 750×300 (top) and total height of 540, 720 or 900mm.

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Long Chair by Jo Nagasaka	Bench2 by Jo Nagasaka	Paco by Jo Nagasaka

Milan 2011: London designer Benjamin Hubert launched this chair with a pressed-felt shell at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month.

Hubert talks about the design for Dutch brand Devorm in this interview Dezeen filmed with him in Milan for Dezeen Screen.

Called Pod, the chair has a steam-bent ash frame while the seat is pressed in one piece from felt made of recycled plastic bottles.

The product comes flat-packed and the shells stack inside each other for transportation.

Cushions are made of recycled foam with fabric covers in contrasting colours.

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Here are some more details from Hubert:

Pod

Benjamin Hubert x Devorm

The ‘Pod’ is a large privacy chair for breakout areas in offices or residential projects.

Pod is an environmental alternative to large upholstered furniture. Most upholstery is difficult to recycle as it’s a fixed combination of timber, glue, foam and textile.

Pod tackles this by replacing the large upholstery with moulded felt created from recycled PET bottles. In addition the entire design is knock down with the shells stacking for minimum carbon footprint in transportation and storage.

The chair’s ergonomics allow the user to work comfortably whilst feeling relaxed and separated from the hustle and bustle of daily life. It creates a room-in-room experience with the perimeter of the chair around the user’s head.

The shell of the chair is the largest form ever produced utilising pressed PET felt technology. This felt allows a distinctive aesthetic as well as offering sound-dampening properties to increase the sensation of privacy with acoustic performance.

Recycled PET felt
Steam bent ash timber
Recycled foam cushions with kvadrat upholstery.
h 130cm x w 95cm x d 80cm

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Felt Up by Charlotte Kingsnorth	Dressed Up Furniture by KAMKAM	Nobody Chair by Komplot

Milan 2011: Japanese designers Nendo have designed these hand-blown glass lights with the blowers pipe still attached, for Czech lighting company Lasvit, exhibited in Milan earlier this month.

Called ‘Growing Vases’ the lights were shown as part of an exhibition, titled ‘Cocoon’, directed by designer Fabio Novembre in Milan.

The design is based on the shape of a flower bulb.

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The following is from Nendo:

Growing Vases by Nendo for Lasvit:
We exhibited a glass object “growing vases” for a Czech glass and lighting company “Lasvit” in collaboration with Fabio Novembre.

Design Concept
During this year’s Salone, an exhibition of three designs by three designers including Mathieu Lehanneur and Nendo under the art direction of designer Fabio Novembre showcased the artistry of venerable Czech Bohemian glass maker Lasvit’s glassblowers.

We were assigned the abstract theme ‘cocoon’, and asked to create work that would directly convey the quixotic appeal of glass as something that is impractical and incomplete, but provides a breath of fresh air, opening up new possibilities.

We decided to take the brief in a playful direction, and to suggest both breathing and the incomplete by displaying the metal pipes used by glassblowers, still attached to the glass objects that they were used to make. By turning the pipes into flowers and branches and the glass into a vase, we literally turned convention on its head, making flowers blooming in vases into vases blooming from flowers to represent the flower bulbs that draw nutrients from plants through photosynthesis and store new life.

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Loom by Benjamin Hubert	Sprig by Victor Vetterlein	Bird by Zhili Liu

Milan 2011: Bozen based designer Simone Simonelli has designed this folding chair from timber rods.

Called Mossa, the chair is constructed from 14 timber poles with a curved timber seat.

The chair won the Honorable Mention Prize at Promosedia 2010, the awards for which were presented in Milan earlier this month.

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The following is from the designer:

Mossa Chair wins Honorable Mention at Promosedia International Award 2010

Words from the jury:
“A fresh spin on a classic concept, a new interpretation and style in a contemporary sense: this is Mossa, an agile, accessible and functional seat – thanks to the evergreen versatility of folding chairs – which at the same time expresses its young and lively character thanks to its wide range of colours.”

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Piana by David Chipperfield	Flux by Jerszy Seymour	Impossible Wood by Doshi Levien

Dezeen Screen: our latest film made at Ventura Lambrate in Milan earlier this month features industrial designer Yves Behar of fuseproject talking about VUE, the watch he designed for Issey Miyake. The watch can be bought at Dezeen Watch Store. Watch the movie