Road Sign Furniture
Posted in: road sign, Tim DelgerAnche in Animal House se ben ricordate, si usavano cartelli stradali rubati come mobili. Tim Delger ci ha ragionato un attimo sopra e si è inventato questa collezione di pezzi unici.
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Anche in Animal House se ben ricordate, si usavano cartelli stradali rubati come mobili. Tim Delger ci ha ragionato un attimo sopra e si è inventato questa collezione di pezzi unici.
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Dezeen Wire: Benjamin Hubert‘s Pod chair for Dutch company De Vorm received the 100% Design Award in Rotterdam last week.
The chair with a felt shell was launched at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month, where Dezeen filmed an interview with Hubert talking about the design.
See our story about Pod by Benjamin Hubert on Dezeen »
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Here are some more details from De Vorm:
Last week, Holland’s largest design and interior fair, 100% Design, took place in Rotterdam.
The Pod was nominated for the prestigious 100% Design Award and came out as winner!
The jury decided unanimously and praised the durable character and the applied PET felt technolgy.
The Pod by Benjamin Hubert is a large privacy chair and is perfect for breakout areas in offices or residential projects. The chair’s ergonomics allow the user to work comfortably whilst feeling relaxed and separated from the hustle and bustle of daily life. It’s almost a little room-in-room solution.
The shell of the chair is the largest form ever produced utilising pressed PET felt technology. This felt allows a distinctive aesthetic as well as offers sound dampening properties to increase the sensation of privacy. In addition, the entire design is environmentally friendly; from its material made of recycled plastic bottles to the fact that the Pod is stackable and therefore easy to store and to transport.
German designer Peter Böckel will present this combined book shelf and lamp at DMY Berlin this week.
Caled Readme, the design resembles a stretched lamp shade with the books stashed in a void between the two ends.
The steel cabinet is supported on maple legs and light is emitted from the translucent top surface.
Dezeen are media partners for DMY Berlin, which takes place 1-5 June 2011.
The information below is from Peter Böckel:
README is the convergence of a lamp and a shelf. Standing on four legs it also is lightly influenced by the characteristics of a small chest. It still holds the traits of a lampshade which is broken up by shelving. In addition there is some small storage at the top. The extrapolation of the two convergent origins is the decisive point.
Used materials are white maple and coated steel.
Peter Böckel is a young industrial designer from Germany. He graduated 2011 from the University of Applied Science Coburg. During his time at the university he collected work experience in the offices of N+P Industrial Design in Munich and Michael Young in Hong Kong. Besides his assistant teaching at the university, he organized and mentored workshops for students at universities in Istanbul.
His design interests are ranging from experimental and furniture to industrial design. He scrutinizes and interprets things and processes in abstract and unusual ways. Here he likes to move around border crossings.
This can be used in topics and in the meanings are. Equally important is to find the right dose of friction between product and user. Inspired by materials, technologies and his surroundings he creates iconic and contemporary products.
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Knoll’s Model 1500 Series desk (1956) designed by Florence Knoll and Model 70 chair (1950) designed by Eero Saarinen, Eclat (1974) designed by Anni Albers, and Jehs+Laub lounge chair (2008). (Photos from left: Knoll and Ilan Rubin for Knoll)
Following in the footsteps of organizations ranging from the U.S. Green Building Council and the Walker Art Center to Google and Adobe, Knoll is the winner of the 2011 National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement. The honor recognizes the East Greenville, Pennsylvania-based company’s use of design as a strategic tool and its efforts to advance the relationship between design and quality of life. Founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll on the conviction that good design enriches lives, the company pioneered the planning of office interiors under Florence Knoll (who turned 94 on Tuesday), championed modern design and innovative manufacturing processes, and has worked with designers from Alvar Aalto to Otto Zapf. “Everyone who has ever been involved in designing, manufacturing, or selling our products deserves credit for, and should take pride in, this award,” said Andrew Cogan, CEO of Knoll.
It’s been a busy May for the company, which earlier this month celebrated the opening of “Knoll Textiles, 1945–2010,” an exhibition on view through July 31 at the Bard Graduate Center, and is now completing final preparations for NeoCon in Chicago. So what does Knoll have in store for the mega trade show? “We will introduce ReGeneration, the latest member of the Generation family of chairs,” Cogan told us of the new streamlined piece designed by New Zealand-based Formway. Made from fewer parts, the chair uses post-consumer recycled content from soda bottles in its structure as well as corn-based renewable material and bio-based upholstery foam. Among other big Knoll NeoCon debuts are “enhancements to our Antenna Workspaces and Reff Profiles furniture lines, a new collection of conference tables designed by Lehman Smith McLeish, and the Krusin Seating Collection for KnollStudio, as well as new textiles from Dorothy Cosonas and Suzanne Tick.”
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