Swedish designer Fredrik Mattson has created the Moloss Armchair for the Helsinki, Finland based furniture manufacturer Vivero.

From Fredrik Mattson:

I like to think about furniture as friends. I often design furniture that looks like the friends I enjoy.  This character, the Moloss, is a very strong figure that has appeared time after time in my sketch book for a long time. When Vivero asked me to design something for their collection, I thought the Moloss would be absolutely perfect. Moloss is not so loud, more of the reliable type that will be a long life companion of mine. The best friends are often the ones that don’t care too much about what others think, that dares to go their own way.

Visit Fredrik Mattson’s website – here.    Visit the Vivero website – here.

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British designer Tom Dixon has created a new seating collection to be produced by George Smith at its factory in Newcastle, England.

From Tom Dixon:

The collection celebrates the traditions of British upholstered furniture with each piece hand made by George Smith using long established techniques practiced for over 250 years. Skilled craftsmen, including generations of the same family, employ the use of traditional skills such as joinery, hand sewing and upholstery. These skills are kept alive through an apprenticeship scheme which ensures the knowledge and techniques are passed down from generation to generation supporting the British industry.

The construction of each piece uses many materials from renewable sources with frames made of wood from sustainable forests, and the main body fillings upholstered with natural ingredients including natural cotton, feather, and boar bristle.

The collection consists of five ranges, seen below are three examples. The full collection will be on display at the 2009 Salone del Mobile furniture show in Milan.

Visit the Tom Dixon website – here.    Visit the George Smith website – here.

The Club Chair and Sofa:

The Plump Chair and Sofa:

The Bean Sofa:

Sotiris Lazou has designed the Desmos armchair for the Greek manufacturer Varangis.

From Varangis:

With volumes reduced to simple geometric forms, this imaginative armchair becomes a weightless object, a functional, everyday piece of furniture turned into something beautiful. The idea for the armrests came from the scribbles of the designer’s young daughter on a household chair. Both back and seat are laminated bending. Thin sections of wood are glued to a pre-existing curvy organic form, resulting in a backrest first molded to embrace the body and then pierced through CNC routing technology.

Visit Sotiris Lazou’s website – here.    Visit the Varangis website – here.

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Lawrence Architecture designed this two bedroom home on a 10 acre site near Port Townsend, Washington, for a retired couple who were moving ashore after 30 years of living on a sailboat.

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Designer Thomas Tritsch with the manufacturer Quinze & Milan, will feature the Pentagon seating collection at the 2009 Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, April 22nd – 27th.

Visit the Quinze & Milan website – here.

New York based industrial designer Alvaro Uribe, has sent us his Copenhagen Chair.

From Alvaro Uribe:

The Copenhagen chair seduces the eye through harmonious curves and dynamic gesture. Many chairs are dissected in structural sections that don’t work together neither in function or language. This chair unites all sections of the chair in two that work together to give strength and stability. The chair is made of Beach Veneer and Oak wood.

Visit Alvaro Uribe’s website – here.

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Inspirational bedrooms from the 2009 collection of Italian manufacturer SMA Mobili.

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Sotiris Lazou has designed the Omicra chair for the Greek manufacturer Varangis.

From Varangis:

This extraordinary chair is an ode to minimalism, creating space and volume through void. With open, negative areas developed as deliberately as the positive density, its form is defined by a rhythmical relation between the massive solid of the seat and the pierced back. This correlation of internal and external elements, however, is not limited to aesthetic contemplation. Employing the greatest economy, a single seamless plank of pressed multilaminar plantation wood is vacuum formed and the backrest is attenuated using CNC routing technology, intentionally pushing the material to its very limits to achieve extreme flexibility and body-hugging comfort.

Visit Sotiris Lazou’s website – here.    Visit the Varangis website – here.

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James D. LaRue Architecture designed the Spirit Lake house in Austin, Texas.

From the architects:

An Austin couple purchased a stunning, sloped, acre and a half lot with tons of trees and vowed to have a house designed to save every last one of them.  They hired an architect with a knack for designing homes with a soft contemporary flare and an equal desire to let the lot design the house and ended up with these spectacular results.

Visit the website of James D. LaRue Architecture – here.

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Ronald Jeanson, of the Rotterdam, Netherlands based interior architects INTOO, has designed the Mazy Armchair for the Italian manufacturer Zilio A&C.

From INTOO:

Mazy is a comfortable armchair inspired by modern architectural forms. A network of branches creates a random hybrid maze. This surrounds you while seated on a upholstered cushion. It is a combination of recognizable appearance and a contemporary look.

Visit the Zilio A&C website – here.  Visit the INTOO website – here.

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Yannis Georgaras has designed the Aeolos table for the Greek manufacturer Varangis.

From Varangis:

Reminiscent of a wind-wheel patiently waiting for the first gusts of a morning breeze, the same gentle wind which pervades Homer’s epics and filled Odysseus’s sails, this elegant dining table is an optically rewarding exercise in the sensibility of wood. Three medium-density fiberboard planks, lacquered or veneered in high quality timber, such as ebony or olive ash, are imaginatively manipulated to form a base supporting a round table top of transparent tempered glass.

Visit the Varangis website – here.

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Andreas Varotsos has designed the Luna chair for the Greek manufacturer Varangis.

From Varangis:

This innovative chair, paying tribute to Arne Jacobsen’s inspired futuristic designs from the 1950s, explores the symbolic, expressive and ornamental properties of flowing, curvilinear line as an evocative force corresponding to melodious sound or lyrical poetry. Its key innovation lies in a backrest/seat module with a cinched ‘waist’ that swivels within a rimmed concave steady base resting on four wooden legs. Made entirely of molded eco-friendly oak, it is available in its natural color or stained wenge.

Visit the Varangis website – here.

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The designs for two temporary pavilions that will be installed this June in Chicago’s Millennium Park have been unveiled.

Both pavilions — one designed by London-based Zaha Hadid and the other by Amsterdam-based Ben van Berkel of UNStudio — emphasize the importance of boldly imagining a better future for all, as Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett did in 1909 in their Plan of Chicago.

Hadid’s curvilinear form uses state-of-the-art fabric technologies. The tent-like structure can be dismantled and re-installed elsewhere after the Centennial. Van Berkel’s floating roof offers surprising views of the Chicago skyline. This pavilion will be de-constructed and recycled.

For more information about the Pavilions, and schedule of events, visit:  www.burnhamplan100.org

The Zaha Hadid Pavilion:

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Fitting, an Italian manufacturer of shelving and bookcases, will introduce its latest products at the upcoming 2009 Milan Furniture Fair, including the Pyramid modular aluminum bookcase.

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The Kolonaki neighborhood of Athens, Greece, is an upmarket district that has a number of . high-end fashion boutiques. . It is here that you will find the Observatory building, designed by Theofanis Bobotis Architects, making a bold statement through its unique exterior.

From Theofanis Bobotis:

A contemporary building is revealed exposing its internal activities to the world outside, in a theatrical manner. The internal activities take place in the form of multi level catwalks which expose color, fashion and high end aesthetics.

Visit the website of Theofanis Bobotis – here.

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