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FURNITURE: BOOKSHELVES
Jean Prouvé, courtesy of Books at Home, a blog about bookshelves!
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MATTER: DRAWERS
Well, the world has changed since we last reported on this blog. I hope you’ve recovered from election night. You may be too enmeshed in reading every newspaper available to catch up with your favorite...
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FURNITURE
In case you haven’t fully outgrown your wish to make playhouses from furniture, or animals from furniture, here’s some photography-as-wish fulfillment:
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FURNITURE: BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Designs, May 8-10, 2009: A great show that grows each year.
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ALBERS
When these nesting tables appeared on Apartment Therapy’s site, a while back, we went into an Albers trance. It made me want to dust off my copy of Study for Homage to a Square. Do you think new color...
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ANNOUNCING….
We’re pleased to introduce the Stal Dining Table and the New Hampshire Chair!
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FURNITURE
We like to gather home remedies that are easy and effective, and this one caught our eye: Refreshing your wood furniture. These photos were convincing [via designsponge]!
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MATTER: TRESTLE
Continuing the search for perfect sawhorses and trestles, we found this trestle, called “the sinus trestle,” which comes in black, white, orange and chrome. [via bltd]
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Dutch Redux
Where else but from a design firm in the Netherlands would you find a sparse stool imprinted with images taken from paintings of the dutch masters. Uncommon materials and uncommon yet simple methods...
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Plywood Perfection
This out of the box furniture uses both design and architecture combined to make the most balanced unique pieces that are fully functional and are not lacking in creativity. This particular chair...
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Contemporary Design for Children
Cose Da Bocia have turned repurposed materials into modern day kids furniture. The collection pieces flow effortlessly within the home, with no separation between the space for adults and children in...
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Better with Age…
The 1085 Edition Chair Bartoli Design has created a new piece of furniture for its 2015 line and it is age defying. This chair is one that was made to age. The wooden base will withstand years of use...
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Plank Furniture
Concealed storage meets minimalistic design with these new pieces designed by Max Lamb. We love the thoughtful design of each of the pieces which have hidden storage nooks inset within the center of...
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Bringing Birchbark to Modern Design
Turning birchbark into a usable material is an age old Siberian craft. Anastasiya Koshcheeva has used the material to create the ‘fabric’ for her Taburet stool. Although she has been applying the wood...
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Snarkitecture’s Slip Bench
Snarkitecture fuses architecture and art to create truly unique home objects. We are particularly inspired by the streamlined proportions of the Slip Bench. The bench is a true feat of geometry. It’s...
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Shaker purity
Shaker furniture is unsurpassed in its purity and craftsmanship. An exhibition of the Protestant sect’s work is on display now through Fall 2017 at the Art Institute in Chicago titled “Shakers and...
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Design and Science, Past and Future
Design practice and scientific methodology became increasingly intertwined in the twentieth century. This shift may have begun at the Bauhaus school in Germany, where designers, artists, and...
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Making combinations with Dieter Rams
Furniture by Dieter Rams, the iconic industrial designer, will be showcased at the Vitra Design Museum‘s exhibit “Modular Furniture” in Weil am Rhein, Germany. In the sixties and seventies Dieter’s...
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Ed Wormley, a Lesser-known Master Modernist
Among the ranks of the Eames’s, Corbusier, Breuer, Nelson, and Bertoia is a Chicago native by the name of Ed Wormley. Born at the end of 1907, Wormley began his professional development in interior...
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