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sungho lee: LED pin

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:43:52 +0000

I saw the clothespin light, and I wondered to myself, “OK, it’s a clothespin and a light. So what?”. Now it all makes sense after seeing this image.

sungho lee: LED pin.

MICHAEL BIHAIN: Illusion Table

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:04:29 +0000

Illusion Table is so expertly performed that I couldn’t quite geta handle on its expertly crafted form. First, it is made from laquered ash which is not what I thought. At first glance, it’s steel or aluminum or anything else but wood. But this illusive use of such a simple material is not where the illusion table gets its name. It gets its name from what the table looks like in plan. In plan, it takes on the form of a perfect square not the sloping curve of it’s side profile. This is quite a slick, thoughtful piece.

MICHAEL BIHAIN – http://bihain.com.

Students from Beckmans Make a Splash at the stockholm Furniture Fair

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:55:23 +0000

I’m going to give away secrets: The way to find the freshest stuff on earth is to always be checking out the design schools the world over. Beckmans is one of the best. Below is some student work from the recent Stockholm Furniture Fair. Both items are furniture finished in white. One piece is a bit more narrative of its function while the other (the table) conceils its true capabilities. Neither design is particularly innovative, however their craft and constraint holds a place in my heart.

Ännu fler studenter visar produkter på Stockholm Furniture Fair | Beckmans.

Designer profile: Studio LIBERTINY

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:16:20 +0000

The work of Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny, a Slovakian-born designer based in the Netherlands, can best be described as obsessive-compulsive. But this complete devotion to his craft also leads to his profound and moving design experiments. As an example, he has recently created a Bic stained cabinet which gets its hue from collecting hundreds of Bic pens, breaking them open, and harvesting all of the ink to cover his cabinet. The result is a cabinet with a durable, dreamlike blue hue. He has also created a writing table whose top is built from twenty-two thousand strips of paper turned on end to create a soft and plyable writing surface. It’s sort of like a writing on the side of a four foot thick book.

Studio L I B E R T I N Y.

Zipshape- A Simple Technique for Creating Complex Furniture

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:13:05 +0000

Zipshape is a technique developed by Schindlersalmeron that allows for curved surfaces to be made in furniture with creating costly molds or setting up cumbersome steaming chambers. The designs get their curves by the interlocking teeth that make up the top and bottom of the furniture piece. The furniture gets its curviture by varying the width and angle of the teeth. The process is not exactly what I would call simple because of the precision needed to make the teeth, but instead of tons of equipment one only has to invest in a robotic saw. I can’t wait to see the first compound curve zipshape pieces. Then, I will freak out.
schindlersalmerón – zipshape I

White Fruit Radio: Uber Wabi Sabi

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:30:18 +0000

I’m sorry. I really don’t know what wabi sabi means. I just hear my boss use this term when referring to elegant and refined architecture that brings in a bit of nature into the design. That’s kind of what this radio does. The radio has no knobs or cluttery gizmos sticking out. The radio simply has this ribbed element at the top that almost look like scales. If you stroke the radio just right the volume goes up. If you stoe it again the radio station changes. I don’t know why but I imagine owners of this radio sitting around in white labcoats with this is the middle of a sparten, concrete floored room lit only by bright white fluorescent tubes. Does that make any sense?
White Fruit Radio | Design Milk

Forget Phone Design. How About Design From Phone?

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:49:12 +0000

First, go check out the original post off of Core 77’s website, it will give you lots of information. So, how does this work? You download an aplication to your phone, play with the table shape until you see what you like, and then buy it and a computer controlled milling machine starts making your table. Two months later after it has been shipped and you’ve got your table. Eeeeeek! Wait, what? That’s right. Your need-it-right-now table phone app create something that will take forever to get here by boat. I have to say, the tables are all beautiful and this phone app thing is sort of a gimmick that realizes its absurdity. But this phone app begs the question: Can I take a picture of something with my phone and have it produced instantly at a local CNC mill? This would be cool .
Designing furniture via cell phone – Core77

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.

Bench by Modern Outdoor

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:54:57 +0000

Etra Small Bench

I’ve been looking for decent modern outdoor furniture for quite some time now. Outside of Europe, quite frankly, there is very little choice when it comes to where you sit on an aesthetically modern surface. Modern Outdoor gives me choices. And they give me choices like this beautiful bench above that are green to boot. There is some piece of mind that the wood that is used to make this was not clear cut. (I just hope the IPE trend doesn’t bite all of us in the ass when there’s none left.)

List Price: ~~$1099.0~~
Price: $1099.0
“Modern Outdoor’s Etra Small Bench is available in your choice of material for the base: ITTO or IBAMA certified Ipe, a beautiful Brazilian hardwood that is three times as hard as teak or 100% recyclable polyboard, a UV-stabilized high density material that is also non-corrosive, non-conductive, and chip resistant.Also available in your choice of size, frame and optional cushion color.Notes:Etra Small Bench shown in ipe and stainless steel.Material swatches appear in same order as drop down menu.”

Spaceless: Sandy Lam’s Expert Solution to Tiny Outdoor Spaces

Brandon Thomas Baunach — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:30:19 +0000

I received this email about a year ago, and just never had time to post this. Sandy Lam has created an ingenious system. The pieces of furniture are built into the floor of a terrace and easily slide up to create a table or a bench. This is the perfect furniture solution for people who have minimal space, and don’t want their precious room to be cluttered with furniture all the time. This is essentially on-demand furniture.

This is not necessarily a new idea. I think the first time pop-up furniture comes to mind is in my grandfather’s bass boat. On this vessel, the seats popped up out of the floor. However, I really have not seen such a simple and useful device as Spaceless for some time now.

The current trend is over-the-top baroque furniture, and this piece focuses on spartan utilitarianism. After this simple idea, though, designers my be inspired to rethink possibilities with concealed furniture.