Peg Furniture System by Studio Gorm
A family of furniture with diverse parentage. The shaker peg rail, the korean wall hung table and the lowly shop broom. A flexible furniture system made up of simple components, which can be assembled in a variety of ways to accommodate a multitude of scenarios. It can be just as easily disassembled, using no tools or fasteners. All components can be hung from a peg rail on the wall creating pleasing abstract compositions.
The Walking Table is a carefully crafted piece of furniture that shows the beauty of mechanics. When shed, the table comes to life and mimics a natural walking motion, perplexing our perception of the ordinarly static piece of furniture.
The Walking Table is available in a walnut edition of 8 pieces, each fine crafted from selected materials.
by YLIGHTING
by Sejoon Kim
A clock where users have to feel the flexible face to reveal the time.
Called Vague Clock, the analogue timepiece has a squashy cover that hides the time until pressed inwards.
The clock is updated by GPS so remains accurate despite the hands being touched.
A storage cabinet that seeks inspiration similar to that of the “open source” model for software, with the possibility of endless variations of the final product. The products appearance as easily as changing the color of the monitors background on your computer.
A limetd series of lamps which explore the use of found materials, usually alien to intimate spaces, to crete aechetypes with warm light and sympathetic shapes.
After my analysis of industrial and free artistic creation methods I noticed that, in my opinion, both methods are necessary if I want to create a product that can potentially exist.
Therefore I try to create pieces of furniture which have clear lines. In this case I’m talking about basic pieces of furniture such as chairs, desks, shelves or wardrobes.
I want to give significance to my products on an artistic way, knowing that other factors such as practicality through shape and handling are important.
The roughness and genuineness of nature play a central role in my work. Nature is my source of inspiration because I feel at home in its primal essence. I believe in pure and honest products with balanced shapes.
We humans have always tried to imitate nature in many different ways but in most cases the most important thing was missing: a feeling that cannot be artificially generated.
The difference between the purely natural and the technologically produced can be clearly felt. There are things that cannot be copied such as the warmth of wood, the smell and touch of leather, the individuality that cannot be imitated.
by Florian Gross
Konnex is light, modular, stackable, easy to put together, fully customizable bookcase that fits in any room, big or small.
Inspiration taken from a piece of worm eaten wood from Naturhistoriska Museet in Gothenburg, Jingfeng aimed to combine “crafts and design with distinctive storytelling to make an object look exclusive”
The Multipurpose Table is an ideal setup for the home-office. User scenario translates into the table being an office desk during work hours, a social hot-spot during break-time and a dining table at night. Lightweight panels on the top, slide comfortably into the legs from either side, revealing a functional lower counter.
by Ahhproject
Couch Sleeper by Anne Lorenz
Charles and Ray Eames revolutionized furniture design more than 50 years ago, when they pioneered a technique for molding and pressing plywood to create gorgeous, curvaceous chairs and tables previously thought impossible.
Now, Swiss designer Jörg Boner (yes, that’s his real name) has given their old production process an update for the digi-age: He uses Computer-Numerical-Control (CNC) milling to generate complicated forms even the Eames couldn’t have fathomed.
His Wogg 50 chair has a deep, arched seat, with a tapered center that thickens as you approach the left and right edges. The two edges are so thick, in fact, they carry the chair’s entire structural load — they’re the sole place where the chair back and legs connect to the seat. That, in turn, gives the chair its lovely, simple profile.
The design process for creating the seat, of course, was anything but simple. Try carving those dramatic curves out of a single block of wood, and you’d pay through the nose. (Plus, think of how much material you’d waste.) But by molding sheets of plywood and pressing them together like a sandwich a la the Eames’s technique, Boner was able to produce a relatively inexpensive curved seat. Then, by sending it through a CNC milling machine — which can cut complex 3-D objects with dazzling precision — he further refined the form.
