The Daylight Entrance by Daniel Rybakken is all about the illusion of daylight. It’s an light installation in the entrance and staircase of an office building. Both don’t have any natural light, but these panels give you the positive sensation of sunlight. The back of the panels were hollowed by CNC-milling and then backlit with a lot of LED’s.
You might also want to have a look at his “Subconscious Effect of Daylight” sidetable.
found at yatzer
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
During the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Tom Dixon presented his Etch collection, which was part of his Flash Factory. Visitors could buy a light or candleholder at the stand, or made of brass or stainless steel. The parts were made by employing an industrial process used to produce electronic products, including circuit boards. The patterns were directly etched on the thin metal sheets. This production technique allows the designer to produce a small bath of high-tech products in a very short time. But also the distribution model at the Flash Factory was quite interesting. The objects were offered in 3 versions: a pre-assembled one by one of the Flash Factory workers, or you could assemble it yourself at the stand and the last option was to buy a flat packed one and assemble it at home.
photo by MenthaArvensis
photo by MenthaArvensis
Every design starts on a piece of paper and often those ideas get visualised by a paper model. The look an feel of those paper model was the basic idea behind The Cut Series, a collaboration between Daniel Enoksson, Lucas E Hinnerud and Jens Boldt. They’ve designed tables, a shelf and a sideboard which look like paper models but are made of aluminum.
found at yatzer
This photo is the best furniture photo I’ve seen lately. It was made by Ken Russell in 1955 and it’s form his ‘alternative uses of the hip bath’ series, the model is the ballerina Frances Pidgeon. I guess that this years Salone del Mobile in Milan wasn’t that exciting, you may prove me wrong with links in the comments.
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”.
Memorandoms is a great photo series by James Nizam. You’ll probably also like his Anteroom photos.
found at Designboom Weblog
“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.
Homerun by Sylvain Willenz.
