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Product news: the covers of these sofas by Italian industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti look like they’re made of crumpled paper (+ slideshow).

Designed for Italian furniture brand Meritalia, the seats by Iacchetti are wrapped DuraForm – a washable cellulose-based material more commonly used for book covers or jeans labels.

Covers can also be ordered in fabric or leather in a selection of earthy shades.

Four simple blocky shapes form the single cushion, two armrests and angled backrest, which are supported by black metal feet at each corner.

The sofas will be shown in Milan next month, where Zaha Hadid will present twisting auditorium seats and Werner Aisslinger will unveil brightly coloured chairs.

Nendo’s modular furniture with tall backrests and a swinging sofa designed for the office may also be of interest.

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South Korean designer Wonmin Park constructed these chairs and tables from slabs of coloured resin (+ slideshow).

The Haze series by Wonmin Park Studio includes a chair, a high round table, two low round tables and a low oblong table.

The resin was coloured with pigment and cast in separate moulds before being joined together. The translucent nature of the resin allows the colour of each element to show through along the joins.

The pieces will be shown at Design Days Dubai next week and at the Salone del Mobile in Milan next month.

Although currently only available as one-offs, Park plans to expand the series with a cabinet and more chairs and tables.

Park graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven before setting up his studio in the Netherlands.

Other resin furniture we’ve featured includes a series of wooden tables with fluorescent resin encasing their gouged-out tops and a cardboard and resin table by El Ultimo Grito – see all furniture.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Haze series

Basic geometric shapes seem to define Wonmin Park’s Haze Series. The entire object gives the impression that it unveils itself in front of us through the opaqueness of its parts. But our perception deceives us when we think it begins and ends there. Each Haze object carries within it a dissymmetry of form hidden from sight. A dissymmetry of form that is balanced out by the colours created in the unique casting process that gives birth to these objects.

With its combination of form, colour, opaqueness and texture the Haze series is a balance of rationality and the self in a life where the former often dominates to the detriment of the latter. Wonmin Park’s Haze series perfectly positions itself between the substantiality and insubstantiality of life.

Material: Lightly coloured resin

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This is not a distorted digital photo – it’s a cabinet that’s been intricately carved to look like one.

Created by Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani’s for furniture brand Fratelli Boffi, the Good Vibrations storage unit was carved from oak by a CNC machine.

Laviani’s piece will be displayed at the Salone del Mobile in Milan from 9 to 14 April next month.

A similar effect can be seen in a collection of 3D-printed chairs that were distorted by data from audio recordings.

We’ve recently featured a cabinet with doors made from corrugated PVC and another carved to resemble choppy ocean waves – see all cabinets.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Good Vibrations by Ferruccio Laviani

In his second year working with Fratelli Boffi, Ferruccio Laviani has created yet another fanciful world from the depths of his prolific imagination. A concept that goes beyond individual products, it combines the expertise of a company that specializes in full-feature and tailor-made projects with the creativity of a designer who can strike a balance between the past and the future, blending the harmony and magniloquence of the classical with the charm and allure of the contemporary.

For the 2013 Furniture Exhibition, the renowned architect has created an entire universe divided into a home’s different spaces. Ferruccio Laviani enthusiastically focuses on the concrete design aspect of interior design, creating unique products that have a strong visual impact and a one-of-a-kind look, as well as coverings, panelling and flooring. This far-reaching vision blends and encompasses different sources of inspiration and questions the traditional tenets of design and furniture.

The fanciful blending of styles is paired with an innate sense of wittiness to produce furniture like the Good Vibrations storage unit. Selected for a preview of this new collection, the piece exemplifies this new design philosophy and the harmonious juxtaposition of the languages and cultures it is based upon.

Echoes of faraway places and Oriental elements are glimpsed in the “disorienting” design of this storage unit, which seems to have been “deformed” by a strong jolt or by swaying movements. Although it appears to depart from the aesthetics of the past, in fact it draws upon ancient knowledge in the use of carving and fine wood workmanship.

The appeal of this extraordinary piece of furniture lies in its ability to overturn and question classical stylistic principles such as purity, cleanness and symmetry, while evoking a comforting feeling of deja-vù and a sort of primitiveness, matched by unquestionable craftsmanship.

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Product news: Dutch design duo Daphna Laurens carved diamond-shaped grids into these wooden chopping boards and tables.

Daphna Laurens’ Grid Plank collection comprises four beech chopping boards in different sizes, with a smooth side for preparing food and a decorative gridded side for serving.

The Grid Table has powder-coated steel legs and an angular beech top, which is shaped to reflect the diamond grid pattern carved on its surface.

Other chopping boards we’ve featured include a wooden design with built-in compartments and one that doubles as the base of a ceramic bowl.

Other products by the same designers include a set of cork and aluminium storage containers and a leaning floor lamp that looks like it’s peeking through a wall – see all design by Daphna Laurens.

Here’s some information from Daphna Laurens:

Grid Plank

The shapes of all four ‘cut and serve’ Grid Planks originate from Daphna Laurens’ grid studies, one of many methods for the design studio to devise form and shape. Varying in size and grid, all planks are designed to be clear-­cut functional and aesthetically alluring, without adding unneeded materials or ‘handy’ accessories.

“Cut on the smooth, serve on the grid side.” Use the plank like this and it will persist in being neat and tidy for a very long time. Oiling the beech wooden plank once in a while, using grape seed or alternative thin non-­smelling oil extends its durable use. A ‘how to treat’ specification comes with every Grid Plank.

Four different shapes, about 40 mm thick beech wood and grips for easy handling. Grid Plank 300X300, Grid Plank 300X400, Grid Plank 300X525 (two grid types available), Grid Plank 200X600

Grid Table

While working on the design of the Grid Plank (Inventory collection) and Gitter (wooden dwelling for concept store YOU ARE HERE) the idea to create the Grid Table arose. Like the Grid Plank, the shape of the table originates from Daphna Laurens’ ‘grid studies’. Meaning that the grid determines the outer shape of the table.

Constructed from beech wood and powder-coated steel, this version of the Grid Table is sized: 200 X 120 X 75 centimetres. Both the steel frame as well as the tabletop is separable into manageable parts.

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Thomas Feichnter’s design strategy for the Fino collection was to eliminate the heavy and massive quality typical of solid wood furniture while retaining its constructive materiality. Each piece is characterized by an overall quality of lightness achieved by straight elements and joints as well as conically shaped table edges and legs that are tapered toward the floor. When combined they create cohesive solutions but individual items also make a great compliment to existing furniture.

Designer: Thomas Feichtner

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