Showing posts with label Milan 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milan 2010. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Milan Preview: ‘RR chair’ by For Use / Numen (AT) and Clayton Oxford's Acacia Wood and Iron Chair



Posted by Nora Schmidt

'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.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Milan Preview: ‘Pipeknot’ by Keiji Ashizawa


Posted by Nora Schmidt

'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