Belgian architect Tobias Labarque has created an aluminium chair.
Tobias says:
Cantilever-type chair made from a single piece of perforated aluminium plate. there are no joints, no connections, no welding, no details, … just a (meticulously) folded plate.
The chair is stackable and is fit for both indoor and outdoor use.
It looks quite aggressive, but sits very comfortable.
Lukas Peet, a recent graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, now living and working in Canada, has designed the Surface Tension writing desk.
The desk features leather stretched over a wood frame creating a hard/soft writing and working surface, allowing a pen to easily glide on a single piece of paper, as well as being comfortable on your hands, wrists, and elbows.
French designers Cécile Makowski and Pierre Schwenke of Monsieur+Madame Design have created the IKO seat for the Paris based manufacturer, Steiner.
French designer Victor Boëda has created the Lilium sofa and chair for the Paris based furniture manufacturer Steiner.
From the designer:
Lilium is a soft couch with a floral line. An assemblage of three sheets, one per function: seat, kidney-level support & back-rest.
German designer Ismail Özalbayrak has sent us photos of the Wireframe table he has created.
The frame is made of steel and the table top is made of medium density fiberboard.
Ismail is currently searching for a manufacturer to produce the table.
British designer Steuart Padwick has launched his own brand of furniture and lighting.
For his new company, he has created a variety of new designs, which are featured below.
Objeti, a Cleveland, Ohio based furniture design and manufacturing company, have sent us their Aerialist Series of coffee tables that can convert into seating. With the turn of a lever, the surface of the table top transforms to reveal an upholstered cushion.
During the Design Miami exhibition (December 1st to 5th, 2009), the Gallery Priveekollektie will present the most recent work of French designer Emmanuel Babled.
British designers Dan Ziglam and Elliot Brook have created the Capsule Collection of seating for their furniture brand Deadgood.
This fully upholstered collection of seating utilises off cuts of fabric to create a graduated run of colour tones and textures that cover an arrangement of irregular sized buttons. The forms themselves are derived from a simple three-dimensional capsule shape which creates a comfortable and engaging seating range, suitable for either commercial or domestic applications, with a tongue in cheek reference to the solar system and 60’s space age adventure.
British designer Toby Howes has sent us the Escher coffee table.
Full description after the photos….
New York based designer Pryor Callaway has sent us photos of the Odalisque bench/coffee table/sculpture that she carved by hand (in her kitchen).
From the designer:
A different type of physical engagement for the viewer: One as sculpture and chaise.
Traditionally, the Odalisque describes a sensual female form, lounging on a period chaise of the time. This contemporary piece unifies the beauty of the feminine curve with the functionality of a lounge, blurring the line between furniture and sculpture.
Limited Edition of 12.
Cast in white polyester resin with marble dust additive.
65″ x 20″ x 14″H. Fabricated in 2009.
Chinese designer Zhili Liu has created the Shrub Tables.
From the designer:
Chinese manufacturing is usually famous for large quantity, low quality and very limited new material and technology. So for Chinese designers, creating low quantity products with high quality in both design and manufacturing has always been a tougher task than it is in most other places. I have been trying to create high specification products with typical Chinese industrial materials and basic technics, through unusual design and engineering, and these tables are the first prototypes in this direction – which I believe could be another route for “Chinese design” aside from reinterpreting the traditional decorative elements.
The exposed sunken screws bolt together the table top with all the “branches” of table legs, forming dozens of stable triangles, which make the table top part of the frame to share the stress in the legs, thus material needed to make a table is minimized. the 2-metre dining table has a top with 6mm even thickness, from edge to centre, without any space technology or exotic material, just thin steel rods, aluminium sheet and a roadside workshop, and the randomnly spreaded fastening screws also become the decorative elements here. Cut, bent, welded and powder coated.
Dialogue – A Chair That Is Up For Negotiation, is an exhibition on now until January 31, 2010, that is put on by the Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition, an association of Danish furniture manufactures and designers, who’s purpose is to develop and stage an annual exhibition of new and experimental furniture types with strong practical and artistic qualities and excellent craftsmanship.
Full description of the exhibition after the photos….
Courtney Clarke, a student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, has designed Sottoman, a multi-functional piece of furniture that can be either a stool or side-table.
Irish designer Joseph Walsh has created the Formations collection of furniture.
Joseph says:
In this new work I will create a series of pieces that, while continuing to possess many of the values of my work to date, go on to explore form in a sensitive way. Through this work, I am seeking to emulate nature’s forms with a timeless presence as though they have evolved like a formation or erosion. The resulting composition of form, material and colour creates a sense of wholeness in each complete work.
