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Mathery, un studio de design situé à Melbourne, a créé des objets du quotidien tels que des dessous de table, des bols et des vases à partir de peaux de fruits découpées, assemblées et teintées. Cela ajoute beaucoup d’originalité à de simples objets ménagers. Plus d’images du projet dans la suite de l’article.

Maison&Objet 2014: British designer Sebastian Bergne has created a letter stand from a folded sheet of metal to keep post and stationery tidied away.

Sebastian Bergne‘s Post Point letter holder for French brand L’Atelier d’exercises is bent from a single piece of steel painted white.

The steel sheet is folded in four places to create a niche for resting new envelopes, important post or mail that needs to be sent, and a smaller raised dent for holding pens.

“A home for your letter writing paraphernalia or a stand for your incoming or outgoing mail, Post Point accommodates envelopes, cards and pens,” said Bergne.

The shape narrows diagonally after each crease in the material to look like the back of an envelope. A small magnet holds stamps in place.

The letter holder can be hooked onto the wall using a hole in the back or simply rested on a flat surface. Post Point is on show at this year’s Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris, which concludes tomorrow.

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Cologne 2014: this day bed by young designer Stefanie Schissler is intentionally lumpy to encourage users to snuggle into it.

The Kulle day bed by Stefanie Schissler has an undulating surface caused by the different sized pieces of upholstery foam concealed beneath its stretchy boiled-wool surface.

The German designer wanted to create a piece of furniture for relaxation that invites the user to lay down through its appearance.

“The look is something new, which is arising curiosity in people,” Schissler told Dezeen. “It is designed to arise the urge to touch and feel it.”

The small cubes of leftover foam used have different densities and heights so the squashiness varies across the surface. “Every bobble feels different,” Schissler explained. “You can feel them but in a very gentle and pleasant way. A lot of people describe it as a massage for the body.”

She added that the piece is not really meant for sitting on but as a landscape for relaxation. “The bobbles at the back are slightly higher so that you can lean your head on them to read a book, but in general the daybed is a piece that is not made to sit on, but to really lie in it, feel it and simply relax.”

Schissler graduates this year from Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany, but developed this project during an exchange semester at Lund University in Sweden.

She presented the day bed as part of as part of the [D3] Design Talents exhibition at imm cologne earlier this month.

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Dutch designers Bernotat & Co have created a range of coverings for chairs that are modelled on a grandma’s dressing gown, baggy overalls and an oven mitt.

Dutch designers Bernotat & Co developed the concept for people to recycle old chairs and make them more comfortable to sit on.

“Being slightly strange, some of them maybe even awkward, they trigger emotional reactions,” said the designers. “People relate differently to the chairs when they’re dressed up and the chairs suddenly acquire a certain anthropomorphic quality.”

The newest piece of the chair clothing, Big Baggy, is made from heavy duty canvas used in overalls and work wear. The back features two big pockets for newspapers, books and magazines, while the side pockets have space for stationary, iPads, iPhones and a hanging loop for headphones.

Pique Pocket is made from a quilted fabric similar to that of an oven mitt and slips over the back of a chair, tucking in at the sides like an apron. Users can slips their hands into the large pockets that hang down behind when they are seated.

Hoodini features a multifunctional cover with a hood attached that can be slipped over a person, completely obscuring their head from view or used as a storage space when it hangs behind the chair.

The quilted fabric is reminiscent of a grandma’s dressing gown or a Chesterfield sofa.

The foam packing for apples inspired the designers to create the Knit-Net design, a stretchy slip-on cover made from acrylic and wool filled with foam. Four press studs help secure it in place at the base of the seat.

The Chair Wear Prét-á-Porter Collection is a selection of their favourite designs from the Haute Couture Collection, presented at Milan and Dutch Design Week last year. The designers have since introduced new colours and one new design.

Here’s a some more information from Bernotat & Co:

Chair Wear

Chair Wear started as a mildly ironical joke, and ended up in a very inspiring new way of looking at furniture upholstery, of seeing it as a separate item, leading to new constructions, productions techniques and materials. With a real collection as a result.

The idea of dressing up chairs evolved while working on the Triennial Chair for Gispen. This chair has a separate cushion in the back, which allows it to be upholstered in two different kinds of fabrics, in endless combinations. With Chair Wear, the idea is taken even further: Bernotat&Co looked at upholstery as a separate item, as clothing for chairs, specially designed and custom-made for this purpose.

Chair Wear stimulates re-use by upgrading old furniture. But the aim is not just restyling. Instead, Bernotat&Co researched the possibilities of adding comfort to hard wooden chairs, or of creating additional functions for simple chairs. For this purpose, the chairs are dressed up with unexpected textiles, ranging from high-tech to industrial to traditional.

For our ‘Prêt-à-Porter models’, we used a variety of techniques and materials, like we did in the initial ‘Haute Couture collection’: Three-dimensional knit-and-wear for Knit Net, the innovative 3d knitted textiles from Innofa for Pique Pocket and Hoodini, and for Big Baggy we used heavy duty canvas that is normally used in overalls and work wear. All of them provide a soft contrast to the hard, basic chairs forming the framework.

In addition, the Chair Wear models give a nice twist to the rather tacky subject of chair covers. As ambiguous objects with various sources of inspiration, they’re open to associations. Being slightly strange, some of them maybe even awkward, they trigger emotional reactions. People relate differently to the chairs when they’re dressed-up, and the chairs suddenly acquire a certain antropomorphic quality. After all, the Dutch word for upholstery is ‘bekleding’ – its root including the word ‘clothing’, creating a direct relation to the human body.

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