German designer Daniel Rohr has designed the Colander Table.

The table is produced in a CNC milling process that starts with a piece of aluminum for the table top that weighs 408kg (900lb). The block of aluminum is milled down to a bowl shape with 909 holes in it. The 4 legs are made from one massive round aluminum bar. The complete timeline for producing one table from the first milling to the final polishing takes around 4 weeks.

You can watch a YouTube video of the production process – here.

The table will be a limited edition of 10 pieces.

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Australian architect Paul Burnham has sent us photos of a house he’s recently designed.
The house is located in the beachside suburb of Cottesloe in Perth, Western Australia.

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Parisian architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec designed the Valentin Apartment, which features a suspended room within the center of the apartment.

Full description after the photos….

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German designers Marcel Kieser and Christof Spath will be exhibiting their collection at
Designblok ’09 in Prague (October 6-11).

Kieser+Spath was founded in 2008 in Darmstadt, Germany. Seen below are photos and descriptions of five of their pieces that they’ve sent us.

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Jonas Lindvall A&D have designed the Villa M2 in southern Sweden.

From the designers:

Villa M2 is situated in a village south of Malmö next to a disused lime quarry that has now become a lake. The part of the building facing the lake incorporates generous windows and minimally defined space to encourage the integration of the house’s interior with its stunning natural surroundings.

The north and entrance side to the Villa faces a road with some light traffic hence the design’s rather closed volume. Most of the interior furniture and fittings are specially designed for the house by Jonas Lindvall A&D.

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Brazilian designer Domingos Tótora has sent us photos of his Agua Table.

At first glance, the table appears to be made of rocks, but it is actually cardboard, which can be seen in the process photos that Domingos Tótora has provided for us.

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Kate Rider, a recent graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, has designed the Mariposa chair, which mixes the feminine craft of lace making with the masculinity of metalwork.

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The New York based landscape and urban design office of Balmori Associates has designed the “Garden That Climbs The Steps” in Bilbao, Spain.

From the designers:

The garden climbs the stairs, running in undulating lines of different textures and colors. Envisioned as a dynamic urban space; it moves in time and with the seasons. Its lush planting cascades down as though the garden was flowing or melting, bleeding the colors into each other. In one gesture, it narrates a story of landscape taking over and expanding over the Public Space and Architecture, therefore transforming the way that the stairs and the space is perceived and read by the user. It is a garden of contrasts: the contrast between native and exotic plants, between the red flowers and the green grass, between the green grass and the grey paving. In form, the garden engages the horizontal plaza with the rising vertical plane of the steps and the upright gesture of Eduardo Chillida’s sculpture. Like the famous Spanish Steps in Rome, the garden is not only designed for visitors to ascend and descend, but for them to linger, and just be.

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