Dutch designers Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders have designed a collection of lamps made of porcelain and oak. Called Tafelstukken (Centrepieces), the project was on show at Dutch Invertuals as part of Dutch Design Week last month. Photographs are by Raw Color. Isaacs and Manders also designed the exhibition for Design Invertuals. Here’s a little information from Daphna Isaacs: – Centerpieces ..
British designer Toby Howes has sent us the Escher coffee table. Description of the Escher Coffee Table by Toby Howes: As the name suggests, the design was inspired by one of Escher’s bird & fish tessellation sketches & proved every bit as difficult as it looks to perfect all the angles! I wanted to create a modern design piece that combined my usual simplicity of style with a real edge & this i..
Located directly across the street from Unthank Park in Portland Oregon, The Park Box is a two unit row house constructed on a standard 50’ x 100’ corner Portland lot. The developer and designer of the project is also the owner of the east unit. The placement on the site provides each unit with a large private deck on opposite ends of the site, one with a large yard. This arrangement provides th..
Irish designer Joseph Walsh has created the Formations collection of furniture. Joseph says: In this new work I will create a series of pieces that, while continuing to possess many of the values of my work to date, go on to explore form in a sensitive way. Through this work, I am seeking to emulate nature’s forms with a timeless presence as though they have evolved like a formation or erosion. ..
site Shizuoka main purpose complex facility / アトリエ?用住宅 total floor area 120 m2 number of floors 2 upper floors main structure wooden structure
Tandem Design Studio of Melbourne have completed a house with a wooden interior in Melbourne, Australia. Called Kensington Lighthouse, the building is located on a long narrow plot. It consists of two volumes clad in corrugated metal and connected by a central courtyard, all supported over a concrete base. Light from windows running along the top of one side is reflected by plywood panels coveri..
Bleu Nature, a France based manufacturer who’s products always have a distinctive natural feeling through their frequent use of unconventional organic materials, have created wall panels called “Pixels Of Driftwood In Relief.” The panels consist of a collection of wood pieces that have been glued vertically to particle board, making them ready to be mounted on a wall. from contemporist
I like to use different materials when designing new pieces, to give me an alternate view on shapes & textures, & this one started life as a couple of pipecleaners! It’s all about the lines &, from the side, you can see every curve mirrors the others to give an unusual silhouette for a rocking chair. Originally, it was constructed completely out of maple but, by adding the walnut into the suppor..
Yellow Treehouse by Pacific Environments Architects text by Pascal Panagiotidis for Yatzer Who didn't have dreams back in his childhood? Some of them were achieved whilst others never came true. Well, there is an architectural concept that we all dreamed of as children but could only do as an adult fantasy. The tree-house concept is reminiscent of childhood dreams and playtime, fairy stories of ..
Australian design firm Carr Design Group have completed a modular house in Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. Called Modular House, the residence comprises two buildings, each arranged along a spine housing all services. The main building contains the living room, dining room, kitchen, study, storage and bedrooms, connected by glazed walkways. Split-level timber decking joins this building to the gue..
