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?
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The following project is one with far fewer hard specs than it has big notions about how the future could be. This project is not a stack of dishes, nay, it is a dish creator. This “Piece of Plate” creator is responsible for the creation of the places where your main course meal will be sitting. Each plate produced will be edible in some way or another, it being organic and made of bio-degradable bits of our mother earth. I cannot speak for its taste.
Last time I had an edible piece of what’s normally porcelain or something similar, it was a bread bowl at the Renaissance fair. Beer cheese soup in a big fat bread bowl? There is nothing better. And now you’re telling me I can have lasagna on an edible plate? This must be love.
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The inspiration for this particular hanging lamp comes from the famous Chesterfield sofas (Capitonné), their fabulous and extremely recognizable pattern of pillowy poofs added to the outside of the shade. Challenges that laid in wait for the designers, Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di Filippo, were no match for the team: that being defining the right size for each and every rhomb as well as finding the quality of leather that could fit the radius of the emispheric surface. It is the contrast between the smooth interior and the sophisticated deep-buttoned exterior that gives these lamps both glamour and classic style.
These lamps are available now with either a black or a white leather exterior and a choice of gold leaf, black or white mat lacquered. Very fine and lovely.
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The following is an exercise in sculpting. A project of carbon fiber proportions, one made when the designer Allen Chester G. Zhang was experimenting with shapes and materials. The project Zhang set for himself was a chair for hotels and cafes, and indeed that’s what’s appearing in the gallery inside this post. A lovely black and hopefully charcoal gray can be seen in each image. This is a chair made for sitting back and drinking up a cold soda or coffee all day long.
On the front you sit, in the back you store. A loose fitting storage bit on the back spells out how relaxed your situation in and around this chair is meant to be, and smooth flowing will your chi and blood be moving.
Designer: Allen Chester G. Zhang
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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.
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Instead of using all that precious and energy-wasting metal in the construction of a scale, why not use water? That’s what the designer of this fabulous project thought, then he brought it to life – Water Scale, a scale that uses Archimedes’ Principle in a simple container to create just what he thought of in his mind.
The object that is to be weighed is placed ont he scale plate which then sinks into the water in proportion to its mass, overflowing the water which then moves up through channel under the water reservoir. The weight of the object is measured with water and the plastic bead in the channel. This scale can weigh objects up to 1000 grams, and is more economical and lighter than most electric and mechanical scales in the market.
Plus no electricity, no energy consumption – green.
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This design comes from the traditional Chinese form of calligraphy and painting – the scroll. It takes this scroll and uses the Involute curves to create a chair seat that provides both good elasticity and support. The seat piece is made of stainless steel or carbon fibre and extruded PC. This chair can be placed and used both indoors and outdoors, whichever you do so desire. Comes in a variety of colors (once it ends up being produced) – but for now, just two!
This design was awarded the 2010 Grand Prize of DESIGNED IN CHINA: The Rado Young Design Prize. Well done!
Designer: XU Gongwei
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Behold a step into the world of making the entire house useful for a party. This is “The Dynamic Kitchen” by Darren Morgan, one made to transform from your everyday kitchen to be used by every family fellow across the nation to a multifunctional place of drinks and eats for all! This kitchen is designed to not only flows with the surrounding architecture, it transforms itself into “a stunning backdrop to any social occasion.” And you can buy it!
This kitchen is broken into five zones including Consumables, Non-Consumables, Cleaning, Preparation, and Cooking. The process of your day to day can be tailored to specifically upon purchase, but for this original edition, the designer used his own activities to dictate the flow. View now one fabulous looking room and food eatery – so full of bends, such a fantastic corner drawer set.
Manufactured by Glenvale Kitchens in Northern Ireland
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Love for a design for such a specific purpose, that’s what I’ve got here. Designer Bradley L. Bowers found himself intrigued by the idea of a desk/surface as an artifact that engages and enlivens its environment. Should all desks and tables and such seek to activate the space they sit in? That’s a big question. What Bowers decided to do here is create a desk that’d alter the space it’s in: perception, interaction, and interpretation. This is a desk for writing haiku.
What a unique sort of assignment Bowers bestowed upon himself. A desk that collects elements from the room around it, integrating into the space, made specifically for writing a single type of poetry. Lovely.
Designer: Bradley L. Bowers
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One extraterrestrial seat, that’s what we’ve got here. This is the “Oddbod Chair” by designer Javier Alejandre, a designer straight out of Madrid. This seat was selected to be shown at the Spanish Design Awards INJUVE 2010. In this chair Alejandre hopes to push the bounday between inert object and the outer limits of the imagination, especially along the lines of space exploration. Science fiction, futuristic, organic and lovely.
This chair is made of rotomoulded PE while the legs are a simple pine. Take a look at the wild video presented below to get a real taste of what this chair is really all about.
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