Ikea Robotics was Adam Lassy his thesis project at ITP, Tisch School of the Arts in New York. He modified Ikea furniture to create mobile, wireless robots which can sense the spatial needs of it’s owner. The first video demos this behaviour. The second I find even more interesting, here he programmed the furniture to display some animal characteristics.
found at designboom weblog
A Stacking Hommage is a great garden version of that o so famous chair. It was designed by Dirk Winkel.
found at trendbeheer
The Chippensteel 0.5 is a chair designed by Oskar Zieta. This chair is made with exactly the same production technique called FiDU as his stool Plopp. FiDU is an abbreviation for German “FreieInnenDruckUmformung” – the Internal Pressure Forming. It means that two shapes cut from steel sheets are welded around their edges and inflated into a 3d object under high pressure. I really like the simplicity of this technique and Oskar seems to push its boundaries to the limit.
These porcelain chairs by Sam Durant, are reproductions of different styles of mono-block resin chairs. Exactly those kind of chairs which you can find all over the world and super ugly. But these colors and the porcelain make them look ok again.
found at acidolatte
Who wouldn’t like to have some marble furniture? Marsotto Edizioni is a collection of 30 different products made in white carrara marble, designed by 6 designers. Each item is made using a CNC machine and finished by hand. Here are my 3 favorites from the collection.
Sultan by Konstantin Grcic
Melt by Thomas Sandell
Tilt by Thomas Sandell
Learning From is a project by Nora Korn & Christoph Köhler. Over a period of 3 months, they collected and documented bulky trash. This resulted in fifty piles of
bulky waste and in eleven items of newly combined, rebuilt or converted bulky waste. Here are my 4 favorites:
found at It’s Nice That
Alejandro Aravena designed the Chairless, a seating device for the modern nomad, for Vitra. It’s just a strap of fabric which you put around your knees and back. Alejandro was inspired by a picture of an Ayoreo Indian sitting with such a strap. This is definitely not a typical Vitra product.
A part of the proceeds will be used to support the “Foundation for Paraguayan Indian Communities”.
“Cinderella’s Chair” by Anna Ter Haar is a collection of chairs with prostheses made of glass. Each prothesis was blown onto the chair to make fit perfectly. Glass however, is a very fragile material but the legs of glass are strong enough to carry weight.
