Furniture Designs

Droog Design - The use of industrial and recycled materials is emphasized by this Dutch design firm established in 1993. "The Droog collection features over 180 designs by over a hundred designers, in the product categories of lighting, furniture, tabletop, kitchen, bathroom, accessory and various. Droog products are chosen or commissioned based on the curatorial criteria laid out by founders Renny Ramakers and Gjis Bakker. They need to combine functionality and conceptual clarity with a keen expression of awareness of cultural and technological references and contexts." Some examples of their products: Treetrunk Bench by Jurgen Bey, 1999

Design Miami: DM takes itself very very seriously, both from a practical/beautiful and a spectacle perspective. Lodged firmly in the latter, Demisch Danant’s concrete chair.

“Designer of the Year” Tokujin Yoshioka’s Chair that disappears in the rain. Much more about Yoshioka’s gorgeous installation here.

Kerry Phillips’ installation at Locust.

Chrome furniture by Vito Acconci.

Installation by Shintaro Miyake, including painted wood pieces, photographs (of a performance), drawings, sculpture, and stuffed plush animals.

Jacob Hashimoto. A sculpture of cocktail umbrellas connected by string, 4 levels deep.

Birdhouse by Marcel Wanders, 2005

Etrat Gommeh - Living Bench
A design made for Plantware using its method: Aeroponically grown trees are shaped to create a bench. Some parts of the template will be removed in the future, leaving a living bench.
Teamwork with Tal Kamil.

Zivia Israel. Stripped folding chair, 2003. Plywood, fabric, military textile. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2006. I love the playfullness and seriousness in the ‘stripped folding chair” by zivia

‘zit up’ chair by zivia, 2003

EZRI TARAZI newspaper chair




MOVE chair, ottoman, and table
Ezri Tarazi
Israel, 2005
Plywood, vinyl, filling material

Cube Chair

Transformted the cube case into a chair. The Cube Chair(CHF 3,900; about $3,750) made of Wood, aluminium, leather. The height is 68cm(closed), when it is open the height is 90cm.

‘bin seat’ by ami drach & dov ganchrow, 2001
- ready-made weber garbage can -

BOOKCARE INTO A BED: A NEW TAKE ON THE MURPHY BED

by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 10. 5.07

Here's an interesting take on the folding Murphy bed idea: instead of folding into the wall, this concept jigsaw-puzzles together to become part of the wall. The bookcase/bed combination works together to help maximize space and give your walls a little extra pop of color; when it's bedtime, just take down your bookcase and you've got a bed.

We like that the bookcases remain on the wall, so you don't have to take stuff off the shelves when it's time to go to bed, but we see a few tricky spots in the day to day operation as well; you'd have to make the bed every night (unless it came with a puzzle-shaped fitted sheet) and it might be a little weird sleeping with a puzzle-shaped crease in the middle. Still, it's a great idea (if the implementation leaves a little to be desired) so we'll hope that some of the kinks will get worked out for Puzzle-Bed 2.0. via ::Yanko Design

Bookseat

The Bookseat($TBD; Spring 2008) is a bookshelf be curved to a chair. When you sit it, you can reading you favorite books from your "seat". It designed by a Toronto based design-duo company named FishbolDesign Atelier. It is made of bent plywood, available with a felt cushion in customizable colors. The Bookseat available in Spring 2008

ChairStoolBench

The ChairStoolBench in Yvonne Fehling's and Jennie Peiz's exhibition at the Arp Museum in Remagen, Germany. They designed by the Utrecht design. These Dynamic ChairStoolBench, it seem to tell us stories happen in this ChairStoolBench. I also love to see it in a city park somewhere. Foldable Chairs and Tables Made of Paper post info Categories: art, home and design Social Bookmark or E-Mail This Post From mocoloco: “Molo creates and distributes unique and innovative products designed by partners Todd MacAllen and Forsythe. That’s Softseating above, a series of seating elements that use a honeycomb structure that fan open to form stools, benches, and loungers. A sort of fan-flatpack (fanpack?). The multi-use elements can be used as seating, low tables, or even stacked as building blocks and to top it off it’s all made out of paper.” These are extremely creative and easily storable, but I just wonder how comfortable they are.