The “To Be Nature Wood Chopstick” has a convoluted name but presents an interesting contribution to the “grow from waste” ethos that’s so popular these days. It starts life in your hands just like an ordinary set of chopsticks except it’s tipped with a starch cap hiding a seed. When you’re done with it, stick the starch end down into the ground and watch as new life climbs up your sweet and sour chicken coated chopstick.
Most LCD screens come equipped with cheap plastic stands and are often an after-thought to the entire package. The DSW is a laminated birch stand with just enough curve for Eames enthusiasts to approve. It makes even this tiny 15″ LCD screen look gorgeous. See kids? Should be on the market soon. Got any screens laying around that could use some new legs?
Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store!
Let me show you a rather unique way of thinking about furniture. The following is an ongoing furniture series by designer Inon Retting. This amazingly talented fellow is part of a group of Israeli designers that share a design studio by the name of DesignGroup. In this project / series, Retting decides to flip furniture design inside-out. Instead of creating legs then placing the seat on top of them for a stool, Retting places the stool’s seat inside of the material that makes up the support. Oddness!
The process used to create these unique sculptural seats is Vacuum Forming, that being essentially getting plastic so hot that it bends and forms to whatever shape is inside of it, meanwhile using a vacuum to pull down the plastic so it can form itself around the shape it will take. In the example shown in the video below, Retting and partners create a couple of stools whose heads are inside the bottom of the plastic form of the stool, thus adding structure and thus creating a bit of furniture like no other, none other, absolutely unique in this world of industrial design.
What do you think? Does the form hold up after the wildness of the process has expired? Will this stool be a pathway to a whole new world of furniture forming?
Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store!
All the way from Maastricht comes this collection of seats named FW2010, a set designed by Valentin Löllmann. This set is diverse in size and set-up, made in a working process characterized by using mortise-and-tendon joints to hazel branches to an oak top. Lovely wood for lovely sitting places! A mix of sawdust and blue is used to round off the connections between the pieces, resulting is an organic shape where no sharp edges remain.
Each of the pieces is burned and treated with wax, after which the top is sanded, polished, and treated with oil. Each of the hazel branches, chosen for their strength and straightness, introduces a “natural dynamic” into the structure’s final shape, each of them distinct in their aesthetic, each of them hand made and numbered.
Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store!
Behold for before you is a couple of designer bits of furniture that require a bit of explanation before you can fully understand or appreciate them. First, it’s recognized that essentially, every bit of matter is both full and a piece of something larger than itself. In this vein of thinking comes a set of two (two for now, more for later) pieces of furniture with parts of their bits missing. One is a bench, the other a stool, both of them crafted to perfection.
The process the designers use for this project goes like this:
Choose,
Change,
Compound
In the case of this stool and this bench, the bit chosen to be replicated or straight up borrowed from other designs is the legs – the legs made to appear etched out of the larger bit of wood, each of these makes for a stunning visage.
Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store!
Some days you just have to go simple. I know that you know if you read posts by me specifically, you’ll find a lot of flipping out over how amazing simple design can be. Minimalistic design is my favorite. Today, I’m privileged to present a bench so simplified, I don’t think there’s a way to improve upon it. How about that? This is the all wood BOTANIST bench, from Orange22.
There are two finish options available on this simple sitter, one Satin Walnut Finish (BOT-BEN-WAL), the other Satin Rift Oak Finish (BOT-BEN-RIFT), and both are made of sustainably cut wood (which I assume here means it was made from trees that were cut down and replaced by new trees,) and are completely American made. Dimensions: 60L x 18D x 18H 55LBS
Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store!
Behold! An odd combo. Occasionally we’re sent some work or we find some work by a designer or artist that has such a fabulous air about it that we’ve got to post more than one of their works (however disparate from one another) at a time. This is definitely one of those times. Take a look at these two works by Rob Davies of Thoughtwood Fine Furniture and tell us if these look similar to you – lemme give you a hint at their common denominator: quality.
Behold the excellent craftsmanship on these two new-age pieces of woodcraft. Not only are they both innovative in their shape, but they both work as beacons for Davies, leading like searchlights back to their source: an extended collection of massively wonderful works.
Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store!
The Claude Modular Collection is a visual treat for the eyes given its superlative craftsmanship and stunning form factor. The collection is available in woods like Ash wood, white stained wood Walnut with brushed brass accents or polished nickel accents. The collection is made up of benches, tables, drawers and each piece serves as the ideal repose after a excruciating day. Each piece creates a dramatic visual language and highlights the designer's global perspective since he has managed to achieve a paradox of subtlety and drama. The Claude Modular Collection can be ordered online from the Jonathan Adler website.
Chances are that at least a few of your friends and/or family members currently operate some sort of iPod or iPhone and thus considering an iPhone/iPod dock as a gift idea sounds only logical. Koostik is one of the docks you should consider this holiday season. Made of wood, the dock will cost you $85-$90 depending on the type of wood you choose: cherry, walnut, maple, and any combination of these three flavors are available. The Koostik measures 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches and it will surely enhance your whole music experience. Not to mention that it will fit well with any furniture design ideas and particularly with homes where wood finishes dominate the whole interior design concept. Via Koostick
The Exhibi-Table is not exactly a home office table; in fact it's not exactly a table for your home but rather for your business, in case your business is selling books and magazines. The table has its own storage shelves embedded right in it and that area can be used to display all the books and magazines you're trying to pitch to your customers. Besides showing various titles to your audience the Exhibi-Table can act as a regular table too, and, if you insist, you could get one for home too, although you'd have little-to-no use for it on most days. So, anyone particularly interested in this Exhibi-Table? Via Yanko Design
