International interview-based magazine Freunde Von Freunden (FvF), which chronicles creatives across all fields in their home and work environments, has made a leap from the digital world to the tactile. Only, this isn’t a new print…
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They’re the latest handsome home furnishings from Chilean design studio Nueve. These floating shelves pair simple and functional geometries with contrasting colors and materials that give them a minimal yet fun aesthetic. Constructed in tepa, ulmo and lenga wood with iron sheet mounts, they’re easy to mount and perfectly sturdy for mounting on any wall.
Designer: Nueve Design Studio
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Dutch firm Studio Makkink & Bey has created a collection of furniture for a nomadic future including a backpack that becomes a sofa bed, a carrycot that becomes a table and a walking cane that turns into an illuminated screen (+ slideshow).
Conceptroom Huisraad by Makkink & Bey is a range of objects that examines the concept of domestic interiors that are no longer attached to any one physical space.
The items form part of Living Spaces, an exhibition exploring textiles in Dutch interiors at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The pieces “depict a future scenario in which the individual travels light and stays comfortable,” said the team.
As part of the display, Makkink & Bey created three objects that utilise natural materials and animal fibres combined with multiple uses.
WarmteWeefsels, meaning “heat tissues”, is a carrycot that turns into a table. In its former state, the cot comes with a pair of adjustable handles and blanket.
To convert it into a table, users remove the blanket, slide the handles to their widest setting and flip the whole thing upside down. The blanket can then be used as either a rug or table cloth.
VouwPlaats, or “fold place”, is a knitted mattress and chair you can carry around as you would a backpack.
The user wears a woollen jacket attached to the frame to carry the VouwPlaats around.
By placing it on the floor, the rolled up mattress acts as a seat and the frame acts as a backrest.
To convert the piece into a bed, the user simply unclasps the two straps holding it together and rolls out the mattress.
The VensterLicht, or “window light”, is a portable room divider and a cane. When closed, the VensterLicht is a chunky walking stick. Inside however, is a four-legged stand and strip-light with a piece of silk cloth attached. When unravelled, it creates a full-length screen.
Each piece provides individuals with, “expandable, foldable and lightweight furniture to travel with, as they traverse boundless interiors – our shrinking world,” said the designers.
This isn’t the first time Studio Makkink & Bey has created multifunctional furniture; last year they created SideSeat, a mash-up of a desk, shelves and swivel chair in one.
Living Spaces continues at the TextielMuseum until 11 May.
Photography is by Rene van der Hulst, commissioned by the TextielMuseum.
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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Eric Klarenbeek, who displayed a chair made out of 3D-printed fungus at Dutch Design Week in October, says the technique could be used to create larger, more complex structures.
Klarenbeek‘s Mycelium chair, which takes its name from the extensive threadlike root structure of fungi, combines organic matter with bioplastics to make a light and strong composite material that can be 3D-printed.
Klarenbeek found that fungus grows quickly on straw, so used powdered straw mixed with water and mycelium to make an aggregate that could be 3D-printed.
“We adapted the 3D-printer and invented a way to print straw injected with mycelium. By infusing this mushroom it acts as a kind of glue so that all these straw parts [combine] together and as soon as you dry it you get a kind of cork material, which is all bound together,” says Klarenbeek.
The chair’s exterior is also 3D-printed, but is made from a bioplastic, against which the mycelium root structure grows. Klarenbeek leaves the fungus to spread throughout the 3D-printed structure, reinforcing it in the process.
“Our main purpose was to find a combination between the robot, or the machine, and to have these two work together to create a new material which could be applicable for any product,” explains Klarenbeek.
He claims the material has many possible applications. “It could be a table, or a whole interior, and that’s where it becomes interesting for me. It’s really strong, solid, lightweight and insulating, so we could build a house!”
The music featured in the movie is a track by Kobi Glas. You can listen to his music on Dezeen Music Project.
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The latest from Peter Dudas, this coffee table’s distinct shape gives the illusion of mass without the weight. The base is made of lightweight aluminum sheet, the top is solid glass and holding it all together are 4 metal brackets that not only make it easy to break down and transport but finish off its skeletal, industrial aesthetic.
Designer: Peter Dudas
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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a reflective glass table for Italian design brand Glas Italia in Milan next month.
Yoshioka‘s Prism Mirror Table for Glas Italia uses a high-transparency mirrored glass that covers the surfaces of the table to reflect its surroundings.
“This piece will be a table like a shimmering sculpture reflecting the view of surroundings,” said Yoshioka. The table is made up of a long rectangular top with bevelled edges, with mirrored blocks for legs.
The panels of glass were cut in a way that allows the edges of the table to refract light like a prism.
Yoshioka is known for his use of reflective and transparent materials including chairs grown from crystals and furniture that’s almost invisible. The table follows on from Tokujin Yoshioka’s Prism mirrors for Glas Italia last year. The new piece will be shown at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile from 8 to 13 April.
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Named after a bar of sand that joins an island to the mainland, the Tombolo sectional allows for infinite floor plan flexibility! With both linear and curved elements, it fits any need from lounges to public spaces and with an unlimited material and color palette it can be customized to be as subdued or expressive as desired. The form is quite simple, but the sit, construction and accessories come together to create a dynamic collection! Get it here!
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Rattan cane encircles furniture in this collection by French design collective Numéro 111 (+ slideshow).
The Insulaire range by Numéro 111 incorporates rattan cane as the structural support in most of the pieces, both as bent sections and straight poles.
“We were impressed by its toughness and also by its suppleness and its capacity to assume varied shapes, more or less complex,” said the designers.
The material forms the external frame of a sofa, holding rounded upholstered cushions and supporting a back that wraps around one end and leaves the other open.
Two resin platforms fit into the cane frames of low and high side tables, and the top one of each is removable.
Small shelves and a mirror can be hung from the horizontal members of loose grid of poles that form a screen. A vertical fabric panel with a large pocket can be also be attached to the side as an acoustic shield and storage pouch.
Rattan is laid down in strips as a flat surface and lacquered pink for a section of a rug, which also has a softer tatami-influenced area.
Upholstered pillows have rigid backs and handles that can be folded back to create an angled back support.
The shade of the lamp slides up and down the wooden stand so it can be used as either a floor lamp or a table light.
Numéro 111 exhibited the collection at the Maison & Objet trade fair outside Paris earlier this year.
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Designer Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery featuring classic and contemporary shelving systems that display objects chosen by friends and colleagues including Ron Arad, Marc Newson and Ross Lovegrove.
Gamper‘s exhibition at the recently opened Serpentine Sackler Gallery includes shelving products dating back as far as the 1930s, which the London-based designer selected for their iconic status or to demonstrate how they relate to the objects they contain.
Among the products presented as part of the Design is a State of Mind exhibition are classic shelving systems by designers including Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass, Ercol and Gio Ponti, as well as contemporary products from companies such as Ikea.
Each shelving product is used to display objects borrowed from the personal archives of Gamper’s friends and colleagues, including Newson, Arad, Lovegrove, Jurgen Bey and Sebastian Bergne.
Gamper said: “There is no perfect design and there is no über-design. Objects talk to us personally. Some might be more functional than others, and the emotional attachment is very individual. This exhibition will showcase a very personal way of collecting and gathering objects – these are pieces that tell a tale.”
The prototypes and inspirational curios selected by the designers include a paperweight in the shape of a bird’s foot lent by Enzo Mari and a collection of objects made at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, chosen by Max Lamb and Gemma Holt.
Practical metal shelving from Dexion displays objects from Ron Arad’s personal archive, including a table he made from a Singer sewing machine base with a dartboard top.
Some of Gamper’s own designs feature in the exhibition, including his rainbow-like arrangement of veneered modular units called L’Arco della Pace.
Gamper also chose to include a large archive of contemporary furniture manufacturing catalogues from around the world.
Two spaces at the centre of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery provide the setting for events organised by Gamper as part of the exhibition.
The designer identified a range of activities that demonstrate how people interact with furniture and products, including cooking, eating, reading, listening, writing, playing, drawing, dreaming and working.
Design is a State of Mind is running concurrently with an exhibition at the main Serpentine Gallery that showcases the work of American artist Haim Steinbach, who is known for including found and made objects in his art.
Gamper’s exhibition, which runs until 21 April 2014, is the second major design exhibition to be staged by the Serpentine Gallery, following the Design Real show curated by Konstantin Grcic in 2009.
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery opened earlier this year following its renovation and extension by Zaha Hadid, who added a swooping tensile fabric canopy to a brick building that was once a gunpowder store.
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Gao Guqi is a young furniture designer who has gained increasing popularity in the last few years. Once a graphic designer, then coffee shop owner and furniture designer, Guqi was born in North Eastern China and has lived all over, from Xiamen to…
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