Hasta La Ideas

In this movie filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week last month, BarberOsgerby’s Jay Osgerby tells Dezeen that he wanted to design comfortable, understated sofas rather than statement pieces for their new collection for American furniture brand Knoll.

“The way that we started the project was to think about what we would really, really want in our home,” says Osgerby, one half of London studio BarberOsgerby, who was recently awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for the design of the London 2012 Olympic Torch.

“You don’t want to live with something that is a huge statement. So we decided that we should try to make something that was super comfortable, something that sat back,” he continues.

The furniture collection includes a range of different sizes, from an armchair to a three-seater sofa, which feature prominent cast aluminium legs that can be finished in red, white or black paint.

“We looked at developing a series of cushions as individual objects that seem to be held together by a detail,” says Osgerby. “The foot detail is like a clip holding the pieces together. Because the sofa is really understated – it’s quite quiet – we felt [the foot detail] should be something recognisably BarberOsgerby.”

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Watch our interview with BarberOsgerby about the Olympic Torch »

The music featured in this movie is a track called Octave by Junior Size, released by French record label Atelier du Sample . You can listen to more Junior Size tracks on Dezeen Music Project.

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Product news: these coffee tables with interlocking wooden legs by German studio Ding3000 have been put into production by Danish brand Normann Copenhagen (+ slideshow).

Ding300s‘s design is based on brain-teaser puzzles that join three pieces of wood together as one to form what looks to be an inseparable knot.

“The three legs seem to pierce through each other in an impossible way and our intention is to draw attention to this almost magical detail,” say the designers. “That is also why we have chosen a transparent top, so the table’s key focus point is the joining of the legs”.

The coffee tables are assembled without any screws or tools and the pieces of oak simply slot together to create a single sculptural form, which becomes the base for a glass tabletop. The base is held firm due to specific shapes cut into each individual leg.

The designers first showed the table as a prototype in 2011, along with cutlery based on the same joint, and it’s now part of Normann Copenhagen‘s collection.

The legs come in natural, orange or black, and the top is available in transparent or smoked glass.

We’ve featured a variety of coffee tables, including Glimpt’s Peruvian hand-carved wooden design, Foster + Partners’ base created by stretching a perforated disk of steel  and Reinier de Jong’s coffee table for REK which can be expanded by sliding out sections in any direction.

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Design student Matthias Brandmaier spent three days in the woods carving a replica Verner Panton chair out of a tree trunk using a chainsaw.

The chair, which weights 30 kilograms, is carved from a single piece of beechwood, but Brandmaier claims it is comfortable to sit on: “Most time was spent on carving the seat and the backrest to guarantee a comfortable chair,” he says.

Reproducing the form of the classic moulded-plastic Panton Chair in solid wood “seemed a stupid and very uneconomic idea at first,” Brandmaier admits, but he did it in order to explore what would happen when a product is reproduced in a different material.

“It was meant to be a unique piece of furniture and I planned in advance how to use the rest of the wood in other objects and sculptures,” Brandmaier says, adding that the copyright of the original chair was not a concern to him. “The translation to the material wood is of course very opposite to the thin plastic shells of the 60s and required a very different structural form, from where a new chair evolved. Therefore I did not worry about the copyright.”

“As this approach seems pretty wasteful on the material, this method of production is of course only possible in a small scale manufacturing, where the redundant wood was used for other objects and sculptures,” adds Brandmaier, who is a student of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. “The Wooden Panton is a single object, which explores the change of forms according to different materials.”

The classic S-shaped Panton Chair, designed by Danish designer Verner Panton, went into production with Vitra in 1967. The chair, featuring a cantilevered seat and made from a single moulded component, has been made of various plastics over the years. It was originally made of fibreglass-reinforced polyester, then from polystyrene and later polyurethane. Today the chair is moulded in polypropylene.

Besides his architectural studies, Brandmaier produces unique pieces of furniture from found objects combined with wood, steel and concrete. See more of his work on his website: www.matthiasbrandmaier.de

A couple of years ago designer Peter Jakubik also used a chainsaw to carve the rough shape of the same Panton chair. See all our stories about chair design »

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Product news: these sofas with exaggerated seams by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola are now in production with Italian furniture brand Moroso.

Thirteen modular pieces make up Urquiola‘s M.A.S.S.A.S., an acronym for Moroso Asymmetric Sofa System Adorably Stitched.

The solid forms are crossed with raised seams over the arms and backs, plus some modules have discrete pockets that sit on the outer sides of the arms.

Moroso originally debuted the prototypes in Milan last year and the production models were also displayed at ICFF 2013.

In Milan this year Patricia Urquiola presented a family of chairs influenced by the shape of a hood and a seat with a backrest wrapped in rush, both also for Moroso.

The latest sofas we’ve featured include chunky grey seating resembling jagged icebergs and a settee that breaks down into a bed, two armchairs and two footstools.

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M.A.S.S.A.S., an acronym for Moroso Asymmetric Sofa System Adorably Stitched, is Patricia Urquiola’s delightful new modular sofa system that makes full use of this Italian company’s unique and highly skilled abilities as haute couture producers of soft seating. A compact and controlled shape is well-defined by cuts and lines that map out the asymmetric fabric placement. Visible, raised stitching runs around the perimeter to deconstruct the otherwise solid surface. While the structure is of polyurethane foam, its softness is the result of a bonded combination of fabric and polyester fiberfill.

There are 13 individual pieces, including chairs and sofas that can be formed into corner turning shapes in a range of sizes. Designed to go with this seating group are the Fishbone Tables. Both of these products, introduced in Milan 2012, are now in production.

Urquiola’s partnership with Moroso began in 1998 when she was asked to produce designs under her own name, making Moroso the first manufacturer to produce her work. Since then Urquiola has been working with Moroso, designing not only furniture but also her first US interior project- the New York City Moroso store. Over the years, Patrizia Moroso, creative director and Urquiola have become great friends, as evidenced by Ms. Moroso’s cherished new home in Udine, designed by Urquiola.

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