Hasta La Ideas

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pbyAMT will be presenting two new collections at Salone del Mobile this year at a href=”http://www.meetmyproject.com/”emMeet My Project: Smart Design for Industry/em/a, alongside 15 other designers./p

pemPeasant Collection/em, pictured top, is a furniture series that makes use of familiar shapes arranged just slightly off-kilter. br /
blockquoteThe image of crooked slats in a weathered picket fence originally impelled Alissia Melka-Teichroew to explore the idea of asymmetrical wood pieces supporting each other. She found a similar kind of irregularity and balancing act in the old-fashioned one-legged milk stool. By merging the two concepts she arrived at the Milk Stools, a sturdy but uneven chair propped up by expressive and lopsided legs. The design evolved into a larger Milk Bench with similarly jumbled legs that almost look like they’re moving on their own./p

pOut of these objects grew a whole family of furniture. The All Is Vanity is based on an easelmdash;yet it refers to something much softer and rounder that brings the rituals of dressing up to mind. A leather strap and hardware keep the delicate structure in place. The Skirt Side Table features a variation on the original idea of wooden slats by turning a set of dowels into a fixed “table cloth” that looks like a hoop skirt in motion. The American Beauty Desk Light and the American Beauty Hanging Lamp have a soft and approachable shape but are made out of hard materials like wood and glass. The idea of a balancing act recurs with the wooden ball, which refers to a stabilizing weight, but it’s function is in fact to provide an elegant route for the electrical cord./blockquote/p

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pemJointed Jewels/em, above, grows out of project investigating ball joints in 3D printed jewelry, expanding to include new forms, scales and colors (including a metallic gold shade and bright colors). Each piece of jewelry is printed in one gomdash;the ball joints are embedded in each other from the get-go./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_byamt_at_meet_my_project__16337.asp”(more…)/a
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