High Point Spring Market

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PRESS RELEASE: April 1, 2011

Clayton Oxford Designs, a premier manufacturer and designer of sustainable home furnishings, introduces the Spring 2011 Natural Slice Collection at the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C. This collection features live-edge slab tables and desks saddled on hand-melded, custom-designed metal bases. One-of-kind cocktail, console and end tables materialize from the inventive construction of reclaimed materials like acacia, mahogany and teak. Each piece is designed by nature and crafted by hand, highlighting the distinctive organic styles and natural elements in the wood grains, knots and holes from the natural root.

With the convenience of a new 19,000-square-foot warehouse in downtown Durham, NC, Clayton Oxford Designs is bringing it all back home. Forging new relationships with local suppliers and artisans, they have increased production in North Carolina while significantly decreasing lead times, even on custom pieces.

“We’re increasing our control over the process by owning the production here in North Carolina,” says Clayton Oxford, the designer and founder. “We can make the most fantastic furniture in the world with materials right here in North Carolina in two weeks from start to finish.”

Lauren Reynolds joined our team in February 2011 as our new Director of Operations & Sales. She has breathed a fresh air of professionalism and organization into a small company of artists. With her extensive experience in event management and accounting, which she honed at New York's Bowery Presents, Lauren has built an infrastructure upon which the business can grow. Her creativity and outsider-mentality breed innovation in the furniture industry.

JUST COOL DESKS - Marc Fish and Clayton Oxford

Posted by Dave on March 25th, 2010

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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Now check out Clayton Oxford's Modern Acacia Wood Desk:


Modern Acacia Wood Dining Table
ITEM #: CO09-055

DESCRIPTION: Natural Sliced Acacia Wood Slab, mounted atop steel legs forms this organic formed Modern Dining Table / Desk.

Available in different sizes and forms, each modern teak wood table has individual characteristics, and natural style.

Each Sustainable Acacia 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:
SMALL - 41"w x 35.5"d x 29.5"h
MEDIUM - 63"w x 41"d x 29.5"h
LARGE - 75"w x 35.5"d x 29.5"

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.

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.