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.

‘Troag’ light by Luca Nichetto for Foscarini and Clayton Oxford Contemporary Rectangular Island Ceiling Light

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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.

Clayton Oxford's SLICED BAMBOO FLOOR LAMP

DESCRIPTION: Unique in design and form, each lamp is hand inlaid with slices of sustainable natural bamboo.Given these lamps are handcrafted using finest selection of natural reclaimed materials, each is slightly unique as they are designed by nature and crafted by hand.

MEASUREMENTS:
Large - 16"w x 16"d x 60"h
Medium - 16"w x 16"d x 48"h
Small - 16"w x 16"d x 30"h

Urban Waste to Forestry Waste, Furniture from Both Sides, Fumi Masuda and Clayton Oxford

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.