British furniture designer/maker Marc Fish has sent us Le Orchidee Desk he has created for the Millinery Works 21st Century Furniture exhibition in London, where nearly 100 pieces of furniture from UK designer/makers will be on display for the month of April.
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'RR chair' by For Use / Numen
The Vienna based design studio For Use / Numen will present the ‘RR chair’ one of their newest projects during this year’s Milan Design Week.
'RR chair' by For Use / Numen
Here is what the designers explain:
“Three variations are based on Richard Riemerschmid’s ‘Musikstuhl’ from year 1899. Beside the fact that the chair is an icon of German Jugendstil, it’s construction with bold diagonal bar presents an almost perfect solution for the basic static problem of a chair. This characteristic was taken as a concept for constructional and formal exploration. Seemingly identical, each of variations has a specific form derived from the starting dominant diagonal. The final derivation is a tripod chair of a typographical level of graphic definition.”
'RR chair' by For Use / Numen
Clayton Oxford's Acacia Wood and Iron Chair is a Green Design that follows the same streamline principles as the 'RR chair.'
Made with the wood of the fast growing and short-lived Acacia tree, this chair is made through sustainable means with durable materials that will last.
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'Troag' light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a new pendant light for Foscarini, which will be launched during next week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan. The decidedly linear piece takes a formal cue from the traditional ‘troag’, a canoe-shaped wooden bowl used in Lapland, which the designer encountered on a visit to the region.
'Troag' light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini
Available in varying lengths, the lamp is fabricated from a single piece of wood. Light is diffused both downwards and upwards, the latter thanks to a slit that runs long the top of the shade. Given its linearity, ‘Troag’ is particularly suited for illuminating long tables or large open spaces.
'Troag' light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini
A Green-Take on this minimal and sleek lighting concept is Clayton Oxford's, Contemporary Rectangular Island Ceiling Light, a contemporary in style and form, the Rectangle Shaped Hanging Island Ceiling Fixture light features reverse cut concave Brown Lipp Shell inlays with Stainless Steel Mounts. Sleek and minimalist in design and style, this transitional to contemporary ceiling light is ideal over a bar / kitchen setting or even a to be used as a modern pool table light.
Also available as a single rail and a wall sconce.
'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota
Our Japanese friend Keiji Ashizawa just sent us this new project, which will be presented at this year’s Salone Satellite in Milan. The series ‘Pipeknot’ consists of a coat rack, a coffee table and a table – all of them are assembles by the same system. Welded steel pipes form the constructive knots. The wooden sticks which pass through them are fixed by dowels.
'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota
In Milan Keiji will introduce the first three designs, they will be followed by many more using the same technique.
'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota
'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa, photo by Takumi Ota
'Pipeknot' by Keiji Ashizawa
Shipping containers are at the forefront of a new era of usefulness. Traditionally used to carry goods via cargo ship, train or truck, these steel boxes are capable of withstanding huge amounts of pressure and weight. This makes them structurally stable, fireproof, mold-proof and weather-proof. Unfortunately each has a lifespan of only 20 years for its original purpose. That means when their work is done hauling stuff, they get retired and sent to junk yards or landfills even though they are still structurally solid. Now architects and designers recognize their usefulness as building blocks for homes, offices, apartments, schools and more. This home in Quebec was built by a couple intent on reducing the amount of wood that goes into building homes and also saving money.
Looking at it from the exterior one would never know that seven 8 x 20 ft shipping containers were used to construct this house. That’s because the exterior is clad in normal siding and 5 to 5 1/2 inches of spray foam insulation. Inside though, you can see the interior of each shipping container and the corrugated steel frame. Even the serial numbers for each container and some dents are visible. Not all shipping container homes are like that though, many are clad on both the interior and exterior with conventional materials to hide the steel frame. But this Quebec couple, architect Bernard Morin and wife Joyce Labelle, wanted to show off the containers for what they are — modern and strong.
The 4 bedroom home is 3,000 square feet and built for a family with 6 children. A traditional house of this size with wood framing would have cost the family at least $400,000, but instead cost the family only $175,000. That’s $58 per square foot - practically unheard of for an American home. Which is one of the reasons why shipping container homes are becoming so popular - they’re cheap to build. They also have a number of other benefits like structural stability, low-maintenance, rot- and mold- proof, and they are very easy to put together and construct a home in a short amount of time. This home took only 10 months to build out.
Maple trees on the lot were felled to make room for the home, but were then reused for siting, support beams and stairs. The floors are cement with radiant cooling system to keep the home at a very comfortable temperature. Other features include door-less glass showers with river stone tiling, the original shipping container floors were reused on the ceiling and metal grating is used as outdoor decking. All of which helps create a modern, urban looking home, but built within a forest.
This Quebec couple have even started a company called Maison IDEKIT to start construction on more shipping container homes. They have two more residential projects on the boards to start this summer and they have 4 different house plans ready to build out. Like prefab homes, shipping container homes are very quick to build. Site work and gray work is completed first, then the containers are dropped into place in less than a day, and then after wards the interior is built out. The long process of framing a house is left out, which reduces the construction time and cost considerably.
+ Building cheaper, green homes by CTV.
SUSTAINABLE FURNISHINGS FOR CONTAINER HOMES
Comber's style is similar to that of Clayton Oxford (www.claytonoxford.com). Clayton Oxford's Reclaimed Teak Coffee table shares the sustainable mission and creative design. See below:
Reclaimed Teak Wood Coffee Table
ITEM #: CO09-074
DESCRIPTION: Reclaimed Teak Wood branches are gathered and pieced by hand to form this unique cocktail table table.
Ideal in any interior design style, the natural shape and form elicits and organic touch to any room's decor.
Eclectic in nature, this eco-friendly, sustainable furniture design adapts to any interior decor location.
Each Reclaimed Teak Wood Accent Design is unique given the high quality natural materials used.
The materials are not prefabricated, but rather designed by nature, and crafted by hand. The images shown are for similar product references.
Custom designs, and sizes also available.
MEASUREMENTS: 32"w x 32"d x 18"h
MAHI MAHI DOLPHIN FISH LIGHT
For many people, there’s nothing worse than the thought of moving. But now at least you can find some solace in the moving process knowing that any discarded furniture may have a second life as Fumi Masuda’s stunning Pile Chair, which is built out of old and discarded furniture collected by movers. The idea came from a Japanese moving company, Mover, that provides a service to collect discarded furniture (think of all the sofas and chairs you see strewn on the sidewalk). As an alternative to disposal, the company figured that the furniture could be used as raw material for new designs, instead of the end product. Fumi Masuda’s Pile Chair emerged from a collaborative project with students and teachers from the Design Department at Tokyo Zokei University and Mover.
As of now, Pile Chair is just a prototype. But, as Scrapile has proven, the Pile Chair shows that reusing rubbish is a pretty good way of demonstrating environmental concern while producing beautiful furniture that has history and tells a story. Stay tuned this afternoon for an interview with Fumi Masuda about his sustainable design practices.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD:
Moving waste in an urban environment begets a Pile Chair like that by Fumi Masuda, but in other environments excess waste could be the fallen twigs of Laggni trees. Check out this Wall Sconce, produced by Clayton Oxford Designs.
Taking these fallen twigs repurposes the waste to make beauty. See: http://www.claytonoxford.com/CO12-003.html.
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