Rather than label themselves as a design studio or designer duo, Alexis Lautier and Pierre Talagrand of Montpellier, France-based Mr & Mr prefer to call themselves “maison d’édition indépendante” or an independent editing house. “We are…
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A minimalist hanger/charger/organizer, the Dutchman breathes new life into the joint of the same name used for centuries in utilitarian woodworking. Sliding “dutchmen” make it truly customizable so you can make it work for all your needs. Learn more about its specially sourced wood —>
Using both walnut and river-recovered pine, the Dutchman completely originates in North Carolina, USA. The walnut is sourced from naturally fallen trees in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC while the river pine is resurrected in Wilminton, NC. The river pine or “old growth pine” was cut more than 150 years ago. Because the trees are slow growing and so dense with pitch, many of them sank to the bottom of the Cape Fear River as they were transported to the nearest mill. When the mills along the river closed in the early 1900s, these sunken trees were forgotten in the muddy bottom. Using sonar, the sunken logs are resurrected and given new life.
Designer: The Wood Studio
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Focus sur le designer Nayef Francis qui a imaginé récemment ces meubles étonnants appelés « The Standing Table ». Disponible dans plusieurs formats, ces petites structures rotatives peuvent servir de mini-bibliothèque et sont à découvrir en images sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.
A floating bookshelf can be a great storage solution and minimal accent to any wall, but not every wall is prepared to hold the supports that the shelf rests on. This design, called OPEN, is a shelving system that achieves the same floating aesthetic without the need for wall mounts. The shelving boards dangle on super-thin but strong fishing line that mounts to the ceiling. Better yet, the shelves can be adjusted without having to remove and replace hardware.
Designer: Frederic Julian Rätsch
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Taut rope is all that holds together this furniture by Dutch design graduate Toon Welling.
The criss-crossing lengths of rope take the place of nails and screws for each piece in the Bound Basics collection, which comprises a desk, a chair and a set of shelves.
The furniture is held together by ‘tensegrity’, a word coined by architect Buckminster Fuller to describe the way components can be joined and supported by continuous tension.
Each piece is assembled from sustainable materials, including hemp rope and FSC-certified plywood.
Welling recently graduated from the product design course at Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in the Netherlands.
Photography is by Wouter Stelwagen.
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Here’s some more information from the designer:
Bound Basics is a line of furniture entirely held together by rope. Their design was inspired by the sculptural works of Kenneth Snelson and Santiago Calatrava. What is immediately apparent about their sculptures is their underlying structural strategies, their ‘tensegrity’. A term coined by Buckminster Fuller, tensegrity is short for tensional integrity. Binding parts in a web of tightened wire or cable, an elegant and stable construct emerges.
Entirely held together by the tensional force of the tautened cord, these structures project a deceptive simplicity and inherent strength. A series of exploratory tensegrity models soon developed into ideas for the Bound Basics, a furniture line that uses ropes instead of nails or screws and investigates the structural advantages of tensegrity.
The designs now collected under the name Bound Basics each attempt to expose the pieces’ construction and internal stability. The choice of the materials — FSC-certified ecological HPL multiplex and hemp rope — follows the same spirit, foregrounding the design strategy over the flash and glamour of high-tech surfaces.
Ultimately, these Basics are just that, basic furniture pieces modest and elegant enough to fit in homes or offices without being distracting, and instead striking a strong and lasting note of simplicity.
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Three thin layers of wood have been overlaid to create this boxy bookcase by Dutch designer Gerard de Hoop.
Frames Wall is a wall-mounted cluster of squares and rectangles that provide space for books of various heights.
The shelves pictured are made from lacquered black MDF, but they can also be made with other woods and in other sizes.
“This cabinet is suitable for shallow books, like poetry and literature,” says de Hoop, who previously designed a free-standing Frames cabinet using five layers of wood to provide space for larger books.
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A ring of shelves encloses a padded reading room at this bookshop by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian.
The Librairie La Fontaine is located in the SANAA-designed Rolex Learning Center on the campus of science and technology university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland.
Kawamura-Ganjavian created curling bookcases in response to SANAA’s building, which features undulating floors and ceilings pierced by cylindrical atriums.
Each shelving enclave has a different size and configuration, with some encircling banks of seating and others wrapping more concentric shelves.
Little book stands and trestle tables are also dotted around the store.
The bookshop was completed at the same time as the Rolex Learning Center in 2010. Read more about the building in our earlier story. We’ve also featured Kawamura-Ganjavian on Dezeen before – check out their exhibition stands made of sticks covered in velcro here.
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Above: Rolex Learning Center by SANAA
Here’s some more information from Kawamura-Ganjavian:
Librairie La Fontaine is a historic bookstore inside the EPFL campus in Lausanne. Its venue moved in 2010 to the new Rolex Learning Centre designed by SANAA architects.
Taking into consideration the architectural language of the host building the bookstore is organised around 5 “pods” that articulate thematic categories. All pods are slightly different from each other, housing books or magazines on their outside and inside, and even a cozy reading cocoon.
The space moves away from a conventional aisle-and-bookshelf rigidity and creates a fluid environment with a rich variety of spaces where the customers feel at ease to explore and roam idly. The pods are as well the subtle source of indirect illumination. The project is enhanced with pieces of furniture (tables, benches, bookstands, dustbins, desk dividers) designed by the authors.
The complex geometry of the pods was made possible thanks to a smart combination of state-of-the-art numeric control manufacturing techniques and advanced Swiss cabinet-making skills.
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Japanese designers Nendo will present this display unit with shelves that are only 5mm thick at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London next month. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen.
The Scatter Shelf is made of glossy acrylic sheets, arranged in a grid formation from the front but a staggered configuration from the side.
The glossy surface slices up reflections when viewed from an angle and scatters them in all directions.
The piece will also be on show at Friedman Benda in New York from 10 November.
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Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.
Here are some more details from Nendo:
Nendo will show a new piece “scatter shelf” at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London during the Frieze Art Fair, and Friedman Benda in NY from November 10th.
The scatter shelf is composed of 5mm black acrylic shelves in a grid form, stacked in three layers and slightly displaced. The resulting shelving unit is not only structurally strong but creates a visual effect in which objects placed on the shelves appear as though caught in a spider’s web when viewed from the front.
When viewed on an angle, the glossy acrylic face creates a series of reflections within the shelves, making the ‘opaque’ acrylic appear to be transparent.
The diffused reflections caused by the ‘surfaces’ shine and form also separates and scatters the view behind the shelving unit, creating a completely kaleidoscopic effect.
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Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of a spiral staircase lined with bookcases by Portuguese architect Manuel Maia Gomes. (more…)
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