Mar 17
Sleepy Chair By Daisuke Motogi
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A chair as a blanket which provides a space of warmth and happiness.
Mar 17
Colé
Posted in: UncategorizedMilan’s newest furniture brand launches their utility-driven first collection
With strong roots in the Milanese tradition of furniture-making, the new design firm Colé will debut at the coming 2011 Design Week, bringing with it a modern take on usefulness in design. The thinking behind the brand draws on the industry experience of Matteo De Ponti (brand manager of furniture manufacturer Driade for more than ten years) and co-counder Laura Macagno’s passion for art, fashion and design. “We love objects with deep roots and we are convinced that in a world almost full of objects, the product should be first of all a service”, the entrepreneurs explained.
Their combined ambition seeks to define not just new concepts, but new ways of making design, based on expressive research and an unseen collaboration among all taking part in the productive chain.
By defining new kinds of partnerships with local producers, the goal is to come up with objects that testify as much to the work of designers as to the artisanal techniques, in Italy and abroad. This approach aims to have nearly unique products, defined by Colé’s concepts but always slightly different due to semi-mechanized processes.
Two young Milanese studios, Lorenz-Kaz and Aksu/Suardi, designed the first collection in what will become a constant group work made by groups of people and led by rather unusual thinking. “We provided them with an emotional brief – says De Ponti – rather than a technical one: the keywords were color, nature, warmth and soul.” The resulting chairs, tables and mirrors recall traditional bourgeoisie furniture, but the layer of a certain degree of irony, and mixture of signs, materials, colors and cultures suggests a project in tune with the times.
Mar 17
Hong Kong designer Kitmen Keung has created a lounge chair and ottoman by slicing a cube of foam in two.
Called Dual Cut, it was designed for Belgian brand Sixinch.
The two pieces of foam fit together for easy storage and transportation.
Photographs are by S.Zine.
Here’s some info from the designer:
Splitting a raw rectangular foam block with only two L-shaped cut lines, the Dual Cut Chair and ottoman employs the simplest production processes true to the materials in use with minimal wastage.
It features two ergonomically comfortable seat back angle options of 6° and 23°, and the multi-formation ability to form a one seater with a side table, a chaise lounge or a corner table.
It also easily forms a neat, compact parcel for convenient storage and transportation.
Dual Cut is available in Light Grey and Dark Grey with a 3-layer-system coating making it suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
Dimensions: stacked, w80 x h80 x d93cm; chaise lounge, w80 x h80 x d170cm; ottoman, w80 x h40 x d77cm; seat height 40cm.
Produced by Sixinch.
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| Long-d Clock by Kit Men Keung | Confluences by Philippe Nigro | Entailles by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset |
Mar 17
Stacking Throne
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The Stacking Throne was a private commission and especially designed for 1 year old girl, Bodile. She can now use it throughout her life. 4 of 5 foam ..
Mar 17
Stretch Bench
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This bench is bent for two direction. I stack 17 wood layers and widen only two parts requested to bench. As if spaces we only need are stretched, onl..
Mar 16
D\ZEN
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D\ZEN ´s balanced volumes are inspired by a rare combination of nature and man’s respectful intervention. They are archetypal forms that s..
Mar 16
Bilou Bilou
Posted in: UncategorizedA luxury Italian furniture-maker’s riff on the classic Thonet chair
Bilou Bilou, a play on Thonet chairs, recently caught our attention for its subtly luxurious reinterpretation of the classic cafe seating in the Beau Rivage bar in Lausanne, Switzerland. Now, with the just-opened NYC branch of
Promemoria, the manufacturer of the chair, we look forward to seeing more of its sensuous pared-down lines stateside.
First introduced in 2003, the Bilou Bilou is available covered in leather or in any of 12 rich colors of stretch velvet, but we prefer the family-owned brand’s trademark mix of seductive surfaces in the combination of glossy polished beech and leather. This use of high-end materials, paired in unusual ways and reinvented with contemporary shapes as well as superlative craftsmanship, runs through Promemoria. A progressive approach to design balancing a playful sensibility with the utmost in artisan furniture-making techniques, their philosophy is perhaps best defined by their mascot, a frog—because it always moves forward.
Mar 15
Just some Furniture I like…
Posted in: UncategorizedLately my husband and I are searching or should i say exploring … no budget at the moment 🙂 for some furnituter we would love to see in our new apartment in Singapore (please key arrive this week!) and the bookshelf Haarlem by RAW studios based in Pretoria South Africa is definetly added to our wish-list.
And either one of these dining table chairs would fit really nicely with the Haarlem Bookshelf don't you think? Both are designed by Scott, Rich & Victoria, an inter-disciplinary design partnership of New Zealanders Scott Fitzsimons and Richard Hartle, who began working together in London in late 2007.
Cristina Alonso and Isaac Pineda are Nadadora. A Design Studio from Spain and again I love the dinig-chair, which one the three in the images do you like best?
Mar 14
The Eve Range
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Eve is our first range. It is a highly decorative and timeless range, designed with the intent that each piece may become a prized heirloom as they ar..
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