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Chair by Arne Jacobsen + table + lamp.With permission of Fritz Hansen (Denmark) to manufacture 9 copies

From the side, this sofa by Iskos-Berlin for Danish brand Versus bears a passing resemblance to its canine namesake, Snoopy.

The design comprises a large rounded pillow for the seat with a single piece of upholstery wrapped round the back to form both arms and backrest.

The range includes a chair and three sofas plus a stool, all finished with solid oak legs.

This time last year Iskos-Berlin presented Spook, an armchair made from a single sheet of felt.

Here’s more from Versus:

Versus launches SNOOPY Design by ISKOS-BERLIN

”We wanted to design a compact but comfortable “family” of sofas that harked back to classic soft furniture styles – especially to the post WW2 period”.

Snoopy’s sculptural language is simple and clear. There are just two elements – a horizontal “pillow” for a seat and a vertical “duvet” at the back that wraps around the seat, embracing it from the sides.

Upholstery details – marked piping is used to accentuate its shape in a natural way, giving it an easily recognizable design “signature”.

Snoopy doesn’t demand much space and fits easily into smaller rooms. Snoopy is constructed and produced following the finest traditions of craftsmanship for this type of furniture.  Snoopy series consists of a pouf, a chair, a 2-seater, a 2,5-seater, and a 3-seater.

Materials
Back & arm section: Belted wooden construction and polyether foam structure with supersoft foam padding.
Seat: Belted wooden construction with spring system and polyether foam structure with supersoft foam padding.
Legs: Solid natural oak

Cologne 2012: Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has created this collection of small wooden storage and display units for French brand Ligne Roset.

Pieces in the Mortaise range are made from thin sections of oak topped with black lacquered MDF slabs.

They are joined with long tenons that pierce right through their mortises to stand proud on the other side.

The collection is currently on show at imm cologne which runs until 22 January. See all our stories about Cologne 2012 here.

Here’s more from Ligne Roset:

Designed in a country where space is at a premium, the Mortaise collection fits perfectly into the long tradition of Japanese furniture which is both highly functional (each piece has its use), mobile (easy to move) and light and  airy (it  should not darken the space and should therefore allow one to look through it).

Uncluttered, simplicity, modesty to the point of joyful austerity are the watchwords of this project which rests on the association of blocks of natural oak and tops in black lacquered MDF, held together by tenon and mortice joints. The collection comprises a shelving unit, occasional table and double-shelf bedside table, all of which are capable of multiple uses, in any room in the house: the shelving unit could be used as a hall console, a mini bookshelf in the sitting room or office, and even as bathroom shelving, whilst the occasional table could be a small low table, sofa  end table, bedside table or even a plant stand…

A pared-down, timeless and light piece which achieves a perfect balance between full and empty, light and dark.

Yota Kakuda was born in Japan in 1979. He studied at the Royal College of Art and worked in a number of design agencies in London, amongst which that of Ross Lovegrove. On his return to Japan in 2008, he became a product designer for Muji before founding his own agency in Tokyo in 2011.

Cologne 2012: closing one drawer of Lee Sanghyeok‘s table causes another to shoot out at random. The project won second prize at the [D3] Contest at imm cologne this week.

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Called Listen to Your Hands, the chest has multiple drawers connected by a central air chamber.

Closing a drawer quickly causes a sudden burst of air to force another drawer out elsewhere. The cabinet can only be completely closed by shutting each drawer in turn slowly and deliberately.

The project was first presented at Lee Sanghyeok’s graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven last year.

First prize at the [D3] Contest was awarded to Jólan van der Wiel for his machine that uses magnets to draw furniture out of a vat of liquid.

Photos and video are by Minseong Wang.

Here are some more details from Lee Sanghyeok:

Listen to your hands is about how we can make a relationship with inanimate things in our domestic space, like furniture. How we connect to the furniture around us, how we experience and communicate with it.

Listen to your hands looks at the most sensitive of human senses, touch; it communicates a whole world of information to us and it explores how we can create a relationship to an object, a sort of dialogue, through touch.

Listen to your hands is a desk with drawers. A push of one drawer pulls out another as if in direct conversation with the action. A gentle closing of a drawer keeps the others intact thus communicating to us that we need to act with intention, we need to listen with our hands.

Lee Sanghyeok creates furniture, objects and nice ideas.