Isreali designer Ronen Kadushin has been producing 2D cutouts for fabricating 3D objects, available for downloading, copying, producing and modifying through his Open Design project. The latest in this series is Kadushin’s version of the piggy bank, a commentary on the current financial climate.
Starting out in the home theater furniture sector, Omni+ had a great showing at the NYIGF with the debut of their new Drysdale desk. A collaboration with Karim Rashid, the desk is on-trend with the materials combination of walnut and white piano-finish. Special consideration was taken when designing the back of the desk with a removable piece that safely tucks cords and other desktop wires away.
If you’ve been inspired by yesterday’s Poor Man’s Porsche, but are feeling that recreating it might be a bit of stretch of your skills and/or patience, then you might like to consider the simple delights of bootlegging a design classic or two to while away a Sunday afternoon.
Slovak designer Peter Jakubik has hewn an impressively convincing Panton from a rather rugged looking log and—baring any awkward copyright disputes—intends to sell his sculptures for country cottages and gardens.
Schwab/Panther SP7 Tables
The [D3] Contest is a selection of outstanding work by recent graduates around the world. The show was a refreshing collection of strong individual projects exploring material and process, and mostly self-produced. The work has a exciting sense of energy — full of new directions, questioning of standard procedures and personal agendas in design.
Before leaving London, a friend who studied in Cologne recommended a visit to cafe bar institution – Hallmackenreuther.
The bar is rumoured to be furnished with the original furniture from Cologne Airport, so we expected to see lots of ’50s and ’60s classics of German design but…it wasn’t so. For the duration of the festival, the vintage furniture has been replaced with the experimental ‘Workshop’ series by Jerszy Seymour — a curious collection of coat stands, armchairs, bar stools and table, with structures built from common wooden batons joined together with an unusually hard-curing wax. Although they look fragile, the pieces are standing up well to the heavy parties the bar is famous for and will remain a functional part of the interior until the end of the festival on Monday.
In case you missed it, Tokujin Yoshioka was honored as Designer of the Year 2011 by German design and interiors magazineA&W Architektur & Wohnen. He was honored at this year’s imm cologne fair which included a survey of his work over the past decade exhibited at the Kölnische Kunstverein until January 23rd. In the designer’s own words, “The exhibition is a retrospective of the past ten years, which displays the products from collaborations with furniture companies. The space is designed based on the image of the past installation CLOUDS, presented in 2003 at Salone del Mobile.The products from the past appear one after the other as the viewers passed through the fog as if memories are recalled.”
Asked about the use of white and transparency in his work, Tokujin replies, “I am drawn to simple and iconic formless elements that evoke people’s emotion. For example, diamonds and crystals obtain their appearance when the light shines on them. I am not intending to design only with white, nor transparent, yet all those elements of beauty, which has been resonant with my own sensation and cultivated inside me, might be appearing on my work as these colors.”
Check out the video of Tokujin’s work here!
Dutch designer Bo Reudler and company were recently invited to take part in a restoration project in a 19th century house near Amsterdam. The designers were challenged to bring a touch of contemporary design flair to the antique bathroom interior whilst retaining some of the character and features of the original.
Most modern bathrooms are shrines to function and sterility. This design sought to bring the space alive. Drawing heavily on natural forms, the copper pipes are left exposed and unfinished, to green with time and use—along with the copper sink and floral tile details. The ceiling’s cornicing, playing with classical interior features, gives the impression of water dripping upwards as you kick back in the antique bathtub.
Check out the tap details and plenty more pics on the Bo Reudler site.
One more view after the jump
With an interest in sustainable energy solutions, Berlin-based designer Christoph Thetard shares his latest graduate thesis project for the kitchen titled R2B2. Presenting it’s mechanical beauty and operation with a large crank-able fly-wheel, R2B2 transforms muscle power into usable energy, whipping food and biceps into shape.
Able to drive a series of hand and base supported tools for about 1 minute at a time, the machine has multiple gearing for variable speeds and utilizies familiar flex shaft engineering to bring power to just about any kitchen task at hand. Christoph determined the most in-demand cooking prep processes we deal with every day and fully realized a food mill, coffee grinder, and hand blender to demonstrate the power and practicality of choosing human power to cut, whip, blend, and grind.
Check out additional photos and a URL to Christoph’s portfolio site where you can see mockups and drawings that brought this beautiful work of cabinetry and product to life.
Spica is the newest lamp from Seattle-based Iacoli & McAllister, named after the brightest star in the Virgo constellation. Like their Frame Pendant, but gone wild, the lamp is from 3/8″ steel rod, the spatial pendant lamp is available in three colors: black, mirror gold, and white powder coating. Handmade in Seattle, the lead time is understandably four weeks, but will be delivered with either a plug and switch or canopy and installation hardware, UL-listed.
See more shots after the jump, or read more about Iacoli & McAllister here.
You might have come across Madrid based studio Kawamura Ganjavian before with their weird and wonderful experiments with objects to amplify the sense (on Core77 here) or their recent “Binpan”.
Studio KG’s newest creation is a lovely foldable felted seat that is intended to bring a touch of cosiness to sleek, contemporary furniture. When folded up the Oyster acts as neat little cushion only to tranform into a very snug “private shelter” when unfurled.
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