American designers Simon Goetz and Evan Brooks have created the Simply Birch collection.
From the designers:
Using digital fabrication methods and eco-friendly birch plywood, we developed a cohesive furniture set that is elegant, light-weight, and functional.
While we were in Chicago for the NeoCon show, we visited the 6th annual Guerrilla Truck Show of young artists and furniture designers who exhibit their work inside of moving trucks in the Fulton Market neighborhood of Chicago. At the show, we met Trevor O’Neil, who was exhibiting some of his furniture and lighting designs.
At the 2010 NeoCon show in Chicago, the American manufacturer Davis Furniture, exhibited the
SITE collection that was designed by California-based designers Otto Williams and Jess Sorel.
New York-based designer Laurie Beckerman has created the Ionic Bench.
Laurie says:
It’s inspired by the capital of an Ionic column. Instead of the look of dense stone, I wanted to extract the lines of the form to create a light, spacious and resilient bench in which a person sits in the middle — framed on either side by two big luxurious scrolls.
Made from 1″ thick Baltic birch plywood, the bench’s profile is cut out 18 times with the use of CNC technology. The slices are laminated together for a strong, curvaceous form. The surfaces that reveal the plies are finely sanded, and coated with a high-quality Italian acrylic; the result is a seat that is sensuously smooth to the touch.
Dutch designer Elena Goray, in cooperation with CONBAM, a bamboo distributor in Germany, has created the Pile Isle bamboo bench.
A bundle of brown bamboo poles is strapped together in smart and simple way. Just 4 belts of stainless steel are keeping the shape – no screw and no glue is necessary.
German designers Flo Schwab and Georg Panther recently exhibited their first product, the SP-7 Table, at the DMY Design Festival in Berlin.
The table has a four piece bent-wire frame that is only held together by tension and pressure.
At the 2010 NeoCon show in Chicago, the American manufacturer Izzy+ exhibited two concept “third space” pieces that were designed by Joey Ruiter.
German designer Veronika Wildgruber has created the Soft Wood collection of chairs.
The chairs appear at first to be made in fabric with the soft appearance of pillows. But in reality they are sculpted in solid wood. The chairs trick the mind because the surface and texture connotes the opposite of what we think and know about the characteristics of wood.
While we were in Chicago for the 2010 NeoCon show, we visited an exhibition of experimental and independent designers, where we saw this seating. We were told that it was created by a design group called The Mighty Bearcats.
At the 2010 NeoCon show in Chicago, the American furniture manufacturer Coalesse exhibited the new SW_1 collection that has been designed by Scott Wilson of MINIMAL.
Polish designers Sylwia Kowalczyk-Gajda and Dorota Terlecka of Biuro-K have designed the SID Stool and Table.
Spanish architects Joaquín Torres and Rafael Llamazares of the A-cero Studio, have designed the REST collection for the manufacturer VONDOM.
At the 2010 NeoCon show in Chicago, the Canadian manufacturer Keilhauer introduced Cahoots, a new lounge seating series designed by the Austrian design group EOOS.
