The Polish design studio MOWO have created the Bufa chair. Inspired by attire and tailoring detail: puff and pleat. An attempt to find furniture pattern and a search of the new solution to replace the traditional upholstery. With the pull of the string on both sides, the proper pattern makes it possible to transform the two-dimensional felt into a spacial shape. The pleated material creates a sp..
The main carcass and legs of the sideboard are crafted using American black walnut whilst the doors are formed using a mixture of walnut, oak, ash, poplar and sapele solid wood lamination’s. In today’s throwaway society it has never been more important to reuse and recycle materials. My “Neapolitan” range of furniture does exactly this. By utilising what most furniture manufacturers would consid..
To coincide with Icelandic design festival DesignMarch, which began in Reykjavik yesterday, here are some parchment gas masks by Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht. Called Masked – In Flight, the masks are made of folded parchment and contain respirators with replaceable filters. They form part of the Non-Product series of objects from Recht’s fashion studio. More about Sruli Recht on Dezeen: R¿ng (..
Influenced by the coming season and of nature, this chair is inspired by a bird’s nest. My idea was to create a graphical chaos which still felt like a unified whole. The chair’s supporting structure consists of a bottom, seat and four stabilizing legs. To create a “nest feeling” I played with birch strips in different thicknesses and hurled them around the supporting structure. In order not to ..
Canadian designer Omer Arbel has created the 28 series of pendant lamps for BOCCI. 28 is a result of a glass blowing technique developed by Omer Arbel whereby air is intermittently blown in and then sucked out of an intermittently heated and then cooled glass matrix. The result is a distorted spherical shape with a composed collection of inner shapes, one of which houses a low voltage lamp. 28 p..
Gulp is three thousand translucent drinking straws interwoven to form a dense, spherical lampshade. Made from one continuous length of interconnected straws, you could – if you possessed Dyson-like suction – put one end in a drink and gulp it down through the other. Each piece takes seven days to make and is made to order. from contemporist
The client purchased this penthouse apartment off the plans and has been three years in the making. The award winning Architect for the apartment project had designed this contemporary complex with very modern simple lines. There is a high degree of glass and natural stone on the exterior. He had sourced European Imported Kitchens for all of the apartments, however my client found that the compa..
Danish design studio BLENDWERK have created a Radiator Bench and Bed Table/Stool. The Radiator Bench The Radiator Bench is as decorative as it is versatile. Hiding the radiator, it not only has the potential to function as a window sill for potted plants or as an extra seating space (with a view), it is also handy when entertaining guests, when you need an extra stool or a small table on the bal..
Melbourne, Australia based Yellow Diva, have designed the M Series of seating. A sumptous seating collection comprising MC1 armchair, MO1 ottoman, MCL chaise longue and MS1 sofa. Taking inspiration from Eastern and Western traditions the M Series harks back to the understated elegance of the early nineteenth century, marrying rhythmic buttoning and tactile piping with decidedly contemporary join..
More from h2o architectes: h2o bench is a modular furniture system designed for the main square of Valenciennes in northern France. Made from fibre concrete, the components can be configured to form stools, benches and chairs for public seating. h2o bench The h2o bench is one component of our winning design for the urban project competition for the main square of Valenciennes, a town in the nort..
