Hasta La Ideas

Here’s a frame made to display the wood waste generated during its own production, created by Japanese designer Hironobu Yamabe.

The product is part of  Tokyo brand E&Y‘s new Edition Horizontal collection – see Max Lamb’s chair for the range in our earlier story.

Here are some more details from the designer:

Space and objects: when you start thinking of these two it is surprisingly interesting… And when those objects are unleashed from function and utility the atmosphere and your imagination shall be freed.

It contains the sawn wood which is produced when the frame was manufactured. Consumer can display or use as an instrument of something.

Material: wood
Size: W.317 x H.386, t=30
Manufacturer: E&Y (http://www.eandy.com/)
Release: winter, 2010

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Japanese designers Nendo present new work at Art Stage gallery in Singapore this month.

Called Dancing Squares, the show will include a bookshelf, lamp, stool and table, each made up of distorted or tumbling squares.

The exhibition runs 13-16 January 2011.

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Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.

The information that follows is from Nendo:

Nendo will show solo exhibitions “dancing squares” at Art Stage in Singapore, 13th – 16th January

“dancing squares”

We assembled square to create a sense of motion in this series of objects.

One part of the bookshelf is frozen in its cascade of tumbling planes, creating variety in the way books can be stacked.

The stool’s twist endows it with visual play.

Lamps roll about but are stable, thank to their planes, and cast light in different directions.

The table leans as though falling away, but maintains its function as a table, and makes objects placed on it seem to sink into its folds and sways.

The different ‘movements’make balance and unbalance overlap, as though we are watching the planes themselves dance.

EVENT: “No Boundary” at Art Stage
Address: Basement 2, Hall D at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

OPEN: January 13th – 16th / 11:30-19:00
Admission Free

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Dutch graduate designer Carolien Laro has designed a range of stools with flexible seats created by cutting slits into their solid wood tops. 

Above: Restless Legs

Called Springwood, the collection includes a three-seater bench and three stools, one on wheels, one without and another with folded steel legs, all with pliable wooden seats.

Above: Original

Each seat requires 480 CNC-milled cuts.

Above: The Paperclip

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Above: The Bridge

The following information is from manufacturers Ritmeester:

Spring Wood., developed by Carolien Laro, a graduated student at the Arts Academy St Joost and Amsterdam Wood and Furniture College.

Carolien searched for the limits of wood…. with great success! Carolien wanted to bring two contradictions of wood together: rigidity and flexibility. She succeeded, with the background of a party garland in mind.

Because our company does like to stimulate young talent we offered Carolien the opportunity to develop her concept of Spring Wood to a ‘ready to sell’ piece of furniture.

That seems simple but it is not. Carolien invested more than 600 hours (!) in the development of her hand made first prototype. So much work in one small stool is commercially not feasible so every technical detail had to be developed for the real production of her idea.

It was quite a journey and during 2010 she worked hard to developed a few versions of Spring Wood, apart from the original version’: These are: The Paperclip, Restless Legs and The Bridge.

Carolien was very successfull with her idea: she won the Wood Challenge Prize as well as a nomination for the IMI Award as well as the DOEN material prize.

Spring Wood seems very simple but it isn’t: it is very complex and laborious. Selecting the right ashwood and machining it. The glueing process followed by the CNC sawing: in total more than 480 CNC groove-milling steps are necessary for one ‘wooden pillow’….

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