Tokyo Bench by Gehry Partners Gehry Partners, the architecture office of Frank Gehry, presented a snaking bench as part of Design Tide in Tokyo over the weekend. Called Tokyo Bench, the maple bench was installed in the lobby of World Co Aoyama Building. Design Tide is a series of exhibitions that took place in Tokyo form 30 October to 3 November, concurrently with Tokyo Designers Week. The bench..
An exhibition directed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka called Second Nature has opened at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo. The exhibition includes Venus chair (see our previous story), created from crystals that form on polyester mesh left in a mineral solution for over a month. Yoshioka also created an installation called Clouds for the exhibition, which consists of overlapping transparent fi..
Hedge Gallery in San Francisco presents Not Furniture, an exhibition of work by American sculptor/designer Forrest Myers. “I’m a sculptor, and I use use furniture as a venue, as an idea, a jumping off place to make sculpture.” says Myers. Top image: Parker. Above: 125 Mph The exhibition, which runs until November 8, is presented in collaboration with New York gallery Friedman Benda. Above: Love ..
A table covered with charcoal by Dutch designer Anke Weiss is on show at Eat Drink Design as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Weiss covered the MDF table top with fixative-treated charcoal sticks by hand. An area of the table’s surface is leveled while the rest is raised and bumpy. “That is the place for a person to sit down and enjoy the view on this hypnotic structure,”..
Australian designer Brodie Neill presented two new furniture pieces at Covent Garden Super Design in London last week. Remix chaise longue (above) is carved from laminated plastic,plywood, chipboard and fibreboard - some of which are reclaimed - usingCNC machinery. The Pop table (above) was designed digitally, manufactured using CNC technology and coated in carbon fibre. Both pieces were present..
Dutch architects UNStudio have unveiled their first chair design, called MYchair. The chair is upholstered in two colours and was created for German manufacturers Walter Knoll. Here’s some more information from UN Studio: – MYchair, Walter Knoll, 2008 MYchair is the first chair designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio and is a real architect’s chair. The architectural approach to furniture is diffe..
In a fruitful new collaboration, the Swedish based designers Johanna Strand and Åsa Elmstam have developed a highly functional and stylishly minimalist new piece of furniture. Powerwise is designed to help people handle their everyday electronic devices in a smarter way. As we all know, cell phones, Mp3-players, cameras and handheld computers are forever in need of recharging and rather annoying..
Silver Bowl for Sawaya & Moroni ACRYLIC BOWL Ré Chandelier for Swarovski ‘Midnight Blue’ Mesa for Vitra Eduardo Perez Scoop courtesy of Sawaya & Moroni Ré Chandelier for Swarovski ‘Midnight Blue’ Mesa for Vitra Photography Barbara Song Moon System for B&B Italia Photography : Fabrizio Bergamo Bowl for Sawaya & Moroni Ré chandelier for Swarovski Swarovski Crystal Palace, 56 via Savona, 20144 Mila..
Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry. The paper is wrapped into a cylinder and cut vertically halfway down one side so that the layers can be peeled back one at a time. Nendo designed the chair for the XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake, which will be at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo from 30 March to 6 Jul..
