Hasta La Ideas

I’m loving the simple Buchtisch (“Book Table”) by Studio Voigt Dietrich, the Potsdam, Germany-based design duo of Franz Dietrich and Sebastion Voigt. While I’m all about multifunctional furniture, I think anyone with a powerful attachment to reading actual books will appreciate the object’s substitution of universally useable table space for a dedicated page-holding peak. The lone horizontal surface is large enough to hold glasses of two kinds: Your reading glasses, and a glass full of what your kids will fondly remember you referring to as “Daddy’s (or Mommy’s) medicine.”

Two other SVD projects that caught my eye: The X-Teile-Lampe, meant to be pre-configurable and digitally manufactured:

[Translated from German] The shape and size of the X-Teile-Lampe are extremely variable and can be changed by a specially written script. The thus generated data set is produced by laser cutter and can be brought into form by means of simple rivets.

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