Jan 30
tree of light
Posted in: Uncategorized
Imagine the sun shining trough the forest… Contrast is in most of the designs of vormstudio very important, also in the tree of light design. T..
Jan 29
Plane Secretary
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With the power supply hidden behind the rear table leg, while the mains adapters and plug connectors stored in a compartment at the desk the secretary..
Jan 29
Primary Cabinet by Peter Jakubik
Posted in: cabinets, chalkboard, Peter Jakubik
Here’s another project by Slovakian designer Peter Jakubik (see his Hobby Panton Chair in yesterday’s story), this time a cabinet with a chalkboard surface.
The Primary Cabinet is a piece of furniture for children and provides users with the ability to alter its appearance as and when they desire.
Here’s a tiny bit of text from the designer:
Primary Cabinet – Draw own design
A storage cabinet created by young European designer. Peter Jakubik seeks an inspiration in the trend of “open source” with the possibility of endless variations of the final product. An Appearance of the product can user set easily as changing colour of the monitor background in your netbook.
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Jan 29
Slovakian designer Peter Jakubik has carved the rough shape of an iconic Panton Chair into a tree trunk with a chain saw.
Called Hobby Panton chair, Jakubik’s design seeks to encourage others to create their own Panton chair, simply by arming themselves with an image of the original, a tree and the essential DIY tools.
Here’s a little bit of text from the designer:
Hobby Panton chair by Peter Jakubik – designer classic tutorial
Panton DIY Chair created by Peter Jakubik.
The Chair incites users fabricates their own original fake according to famous chair designed by Verner Panton.
All what you need is a picture of Panton chair, a tree, DIY tools and passion for designer classics.
And now we can start manufacture genuine copy of the Panton chair for your holiday cottage or garden party.
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Jan 28
Cologne 2011: French brand Ligne Roset presented this folded mesh chair by French designer Francois Azambourg at imm cologne in Germany last week.
Called Grillage, the piece is made by stretching a metal sheet with tiny grooves cut into it, then folding into a seat and attaching to a bent steel frame.
A stretchy, quilted throw can be attached to the seat with magnets sewn into the fabric.
imm cologne took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here »
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The information that follows is from Ligne Roset:
Called Grillage, the design
The principle for creating the basic shape of Grillage is very simple: a sheet of metal with staggered grooves is folded, origami-style, and then drawn to create a mesh. Grillage tells the story of its manufacturing process…drawing, folding, creasing. It reveals everything about itself, from how it was designed to how it was produced.
Grillage – wire mesh – it’s the way to achieve both comfort and ergonomics with an all-metal piece of furniture. It may be covered with a special quilted material for added comfort and a warmer appearance. An outdoor version is available in light blue.
To manufacture Grillage, a sheet of metal, which is grooved in staggered rows, is stretched. Metal wire is then soldered to the exterior, piece by piece. The sheet thus obtained is folded at various points to create the seat: this is a manual operation which renders each armchair ‘unique’.The shape of the armchair will evolve over time.
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Jan 28
Cologne 2011: the Rewrite desk by Copenhagen designers GamFratesi (see our earlier story) has been put into production by French brand Ligne Roset.
The desk has a cave-like shield on top to create a private working environment.
This fiberglass cocoon is covered in foam and woolen fabric, while the desk itself is made of walnut.
A slit in the back of the surface accommodates cables while a lacquered steel container underneath hides laptop transformers and loose wires.
See the prototype in our earlier story.
The product was shown at imm cologne, which took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here »
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Here’s a little information from Ligne Roset:
GamFratesi is a design agency which was founded in Copenhagen in 2006 by Danish architect Stine Gam and Italian architect Enrico Fratesi. This Italian-Danish coupling brings together two gifted European design traditions: a magical union between Southern and Northern design. And the result: the Rewrite desk, designed like a bubble, a little jewel of modernity and softness.
Those who work from home do not necessarily want their living rooms to resemble an open plan office! At once aesthetic and functional, this astonishing study cocoon, covered in a sound-absorbing woollen material, is perfect for preserving both concentration and intimacy.
AESTHETICS
The soundproofed ball affords protection from both light and external noises and also dampens sounds emanating from within it. The natural, precious materials of which it is composed, walnut and Kvadrat Divina wool, reinforce the overall feeling of softness and security.
The astonishing appearance arises from the unexpected meeting between the déjà-vu and a surprising new element: the desk section is quite traditional in terms of its shape and materials (a wooden table), but when one adds its bubble, it breaks free of all historical or proportional references.
The functional aspect is covered by a lacquered metal chest, fixed beneath the desk, which conceals transformers and electrical cables, and by a slit cable port in the top of the desk. Whist staying connected, the user can isolate himself and construct for himself a very private space which is nonetheless still linked to the outside world…Thanks to its rounded shape, the Rewrite desk can be located as a ‘point’ anywhere in a room, be it living room, bedroom or even a large hallway.
Rewrite has already been displayed at the Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen.
Desk with legs in solid walnut and top in walnut veneered MDF, with the exception of the slit cable port in the rear section which is made from solid walnut. Ball/screen in fibreglass clad in polyether foam and Divina craie on both its internal and external faces. Chest in white lacquered steel to take transformers and cables, located beneath the top.
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| Jean Nouvel for Ligne Roset | Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Ligne Roset | Inga Sempé for Ligne Roset |
Jan 27
Upside Down by Floris Wubben
Posted in: Floris Wubben
This chair by Dutch designer Floris Wubben was made by binding and splinting the branches of a willow tree, forcing them to grow into four legs.
A seat and backrest were then cut into the trunk and the whole thing inverted.
The chair was designed in collaboration with artist Bauke Fokkema.
Here’s a tiny bit of text from Wubben:
Upside down
This chair is made of a (inverted) willow tree. The legs have been obtained by twisting and splinting its branches and letting it dry into the final shape. The seat and back were naturally kept in line with the bole’s silhouette. This project had been put in practice jointly with the artist Bauke Fokkema.
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Jan 27
Beaugars by Meike Langer
Posted in: Cologne 2011, Meike Langer
Cologne 2011: product designer Meike Langer presented this table combined with two clothes rails as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week.
Called Beaugars, the product has two bent metal loops that pivot round the wooden surface, meaning it can be reconfigured according to location and the items to be stored.
imm cologne took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here »
Here’s a bit more information from the designer:
Beaugars by Meike Langer
IMM Cologne 2011 Halle 3.2 A 008/E009
Areas of life blend, rooms loose their fixed assignments and functions. Due to the blurring of boundaries new requirements for the environment and their products arise. In this context the furniture Beaugars was developed.
It offers space to lay, hang up and store objects of daily use. Its most distinctive feature, its mutability, results from the flexibility of the two arcs, which can be rotated in 360°.
Therefore Beaugars adapts easily and can be, according to the available space, either compact or expansive. Beaugars consists of a bench made of massive wood, two metal arcs and three wooden hook-elements.
The bench has five legs altogether: three wooden and two metal ones. Whereas the wooden legs are massive the metal ones are hollow due to their function as the mountings of the arcs.
Both arcs can be moved around the seating area in 360 degrees. I try to create functional objects that shall be used and lived with by people in the long term.
Every detail of an object needs to be thought of and justified, but this austerity should not show in the design. I rather wish my objects to appear light and easy to handle.
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