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Fail Bench: Furniture to Make You Insecure

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:39:57 +0000

I saw this bench, and it immediately spawned a thought about dieting and weight loss. I’m getting fatter. I’m not feeling like a real chunky, but I’m slowly creeping up from a slender 190 lbs. (I’m 6′-4" BTW) to something more than this, let’s say. I think the name is interesting because my first thought was the designer named the fail bench because this was a botched project that he or she made, and didn’t want to pass it off as a mistake so they named it "Fail Bench". My more deep seeded meaning for it’s name is that I’ve failed as a human being to get my weight to an acceptable level and I’ve bought this bench to act as my scarlet letter, of sorts. Well, fuck you Fail Bench.

Fail Bench | Design Milk

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Deer Socket: nature meets electronic devices

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:20:53 +0000

The Deer Socket is an innovation that I feel really pushes the boundaries of smart design. Why? First, the design says to me: "I’m unashamedly trendy". For example, deer antlers in the design world: you just can’t get away from them. But nearly all of the antlers on the market are in the coat rack size. None have been miniaturized before. Second, the design takes an everyday mundane invention such as an outlet cover and gives it something that is not only very functional but also beautiful. This breaks the paradigm of the painted "custom" cover you see and turns the cover into sculpture.
Deer Socket | Design Milk

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Expandable bookcase design - Core77

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:05:37 +0000

Over the years, I’ve seen a number of these expandable book shelves, but this bookshelf is maybe the most elegant solutions I’ve seen. It eexpands from completely closed to wide open without looking either too cheap or too high techy. In fact, at any level of expansion, it looks like a piece of art. Maybe it is something about the two inch thick frame proportion that aesthetically walks my subjective tightrope with such ease? I don’t know.
Expandable bookcase design - Core77

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N-7 Table by Casamania

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:08:03 +0000

N-7 is another beautifully built table that takes on the current trend of what I call origami or faceted design. Where did this trend start? I seem to recall a modern building in Hong Kong built about twenty years ago that sort of kicked off this trend in my mind. Since then, I’ve seen so much faceted design that ranges from the Cadillac to cell phones. I’m waiting for toilet paper. Now that would be something. Making something that is normally so round and soft into something more angular and asymmetrical. For today, I’ll just appreciate this table by Casamania. It has an Escher-like quality in that you just can’t quite get a handle on it visually. It feels like it could slip away on you.

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Vessel/Architectural Pottery Beauty in Simplicity

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:06:42 +0000

Let’s face it, we all want to make an extra buck. But it makes it so much more simple for me to sell goods when the goods are just so… good. Today, I’m exploring feelmorehuman.com’s collection of Vessel’s Architectural Pottery re-issues from San Diego. The pieces are a higher plane of lovely. Most ceramic vessels in their collection come in ultra-simple white. But color is occasionally added such as in the WS-4 pieces. If you are looking for a gift for the zen modernist gardener in your life then look no further.

Domino Planters
List Price: ~~$195.0~~
Price: $195.0
VesseL USA Inc. has reissued Architectural Pottery’s most popular designs. These award-winning home and garden planters, containers and sculptures have become icons of mid 20th century design.Architectural Pottery has evolved with two concepts: to manufacture high quality ceramics that would safeguard the health of growing plants and to make these products in a range of related shapes complementary to today’s architecture.

S-1 Planter
List Price: ~~$95.0~~
Price: $95.0
VesseL USA Inc. has reissued Architectural Pottery’s most popular designs. These award-winning home and garden planters, containers and sculptures have become icons of mid 20th century design.Architectural Pottery has evolved with two concepts: to manufacture high quality ceramics that would safeguard the health of growing plants and to make these products in a range of related shapes complementary to today’s architecture.

WS-3 Plant Stand
List Price: ~~$190.0~~
Price: $190.0
VesseL USA Inc. has reissued Architectural Pottery’s most popular designs. These award-winning home and garden planters, containers and sculptures have become icons of mid 20th century design.Architectural Pottery has evolved with two concepts: to manufacture high quality ceramics that would safeguard the health of growing plants and to make these products in a range of related shapes complementary to today’s architecture.

WS-4 Plant Stand
List Price: ~~$190.0~~
Price: $190.0
VesseL USA Inc. has reissued Architectural Pottery’s most popular designs. These award-winning home and garden planters, containers and sculptures have become icons of mid 20th century design.Architectural Pottery has evolved with two concepts: to manufacture high quality ceramics that would safeguard the health of growing plants and to make these products in a range of related shapes complementary to today’s architecture.The WS-4 Walnut Wooden Plant Stand was designed by La Gardo Tackett.Planter excluded.

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Bedford Smart Recharge Station

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:16:32 +0000

There is nothing terribly smart about creating furniture around a charging station. It’s just that it needs to be done. So often we designers design for how we lived our lives twenty years ago and not for how we live our lives now. The Bedford Smart Recharge Station recognizes your needs: pay bills, hold the mail, store notes, charge your stuff. If I had one of these simple pieces of furniture I would now have hours of my life back that I spent searching for where I’ve put my phone.

Charging: Bedford Smart Recharge Station is Something Your Wife Would Like

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