What happens when a force of nature changes the visual aspect of a design? Liliana Ovalle illustrates with finesse, that the unrehearsed, and uncontrolled can add impact both visually and emotionally to a design. Crash is just such a piece. The sleek and perfect lines of the bench have been transformed by an unexpected impact [...]
Baltasar Portillo is a furniture designer born in El Salvador, he has recently designed the Armadillo and Lodge Chair. Art, sculpture, furniture, all three terms are important in the description of the Armadillo and Lodge chairs, part of a series of unique pieces by Salvadorian artist Baltasar Portillo. The architectural form, brings to mind a [...]
Batoidea is the outdoor furniture pieces designed by Peter Donders. Aptly named for the genus of fish which includes the elegant stingray, Batoidea is an extraordinary example of design and technology. Fluid and airy the chair defies practical conventions. The technique for the 3d printed sand mold is the same as the one used to [...]
Designed by Italian designer Alessandro Canepa & Andrea Paulicelli, a new concept in modular furniture FONTABLE is a series of alphanumeric elements reproducing letters A-Z in lower and uppercase and numbers 0-9. The graphic, 3 dimensional ‘type’ becomes the protagonist of a new language in design which is both versatile and eclectic, allowing us to [...]
French designer Benoit Lienart has created the SWEETCH18 Chair. Selected for innovative new design by the prestigious L’Observeur du Design 2011, Sweetch18 is an armchair / coffee table, a coffee table / armchair, two pieces of furniture in one. Raise the center of the coffee table for an armchair, lower the armchair back for a [...]
The PP Tube #2 Chair is created by heating and pressing a seat-shaped former into a construction of cut polypropylene tubes of varying lengths. The plastic begins to liquify as it comes into contact with the heated former and, as it cools, it sets in the shape of a seat creating a contrast in form [...]
Dutch designer Floris Wubben recently has created Bench No. 3. The graceful lines of Bench No. 3 bring to mind a wave cascading over driftwood or as Rob Cassey from England’s prestigious Garden Design Journal puts it This is an incredibly beautiful and potentially iconic object that reminds me both of Issey Miyake’s work and [...]
For the occasion of the Chic Art Fair Paris, British designer Tom Price created this serpentine bench by seamlessly weaving together 5 separate Blue Cable Rope chairs. A perfect compliment to the newly renovated Docks en Seine building which now houses the Paris center of fashion and design on the left bank of the Seine. [...]
Well known American artist Boris Bally’s Transit Chairs are both witty and innovative. The transformation of recycled street signs celebrate a raw American street-aesthetic. The unique markings and patina were earned on the road. Created with the precision of Boris’ skill as a sculptor, jeweler and industrial designer, the pure lines of the chair perfectly [...]
French designer Alexandre Moronnoz designed a dynamic and fluid bench named it as Muscle Bench. The bench offers the possibility of sitting or lying down in response to the surface’s relief. Muscle Bench As spectacular to gaze at as it is comfortable to rest on, Muscle is a counter proposal to traditional stiff and motionless [...]
Italian designer Marco Stefanini has created the playful and colorful Nasse Arm Chair and Axe Genoa. Nasse Arm Chair The high backed, clear, acrylic armchair flexes as you lean into it ensuring comfort to a chair with a clear artistic style. The seat and footstool of hand woven marine cord artfully wraps around a frame [...]
Dutch designer Erik Griffoen has designed the Kazula Rocker chair, the chair is made of 4mm stainless steel, and shaped by the clean geometric lines, it is finished in white color, special colors also available upon request. My work has to be exciting from every angle, have character, beauty and quality. And most of all: [...]
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Arnhem Central Platforms \ UNStudio
On the train station level a new 4th platform has been added and all the platform roofs have been replaced. The design concept for the new platform roofs provides a sense of light and space. Large roof lights, which together with the structural spans, add to a positive experience of the transfer platforms and surroundings. [...]
La Peña House \ R-ZERO Arquitectos
Sited in Valle de Bravo on a property of 1117 square meters, this house is a project at the bottom of the cliff that highlights and frames the beautiful great lake views from within. Due to the irregular ground where it is located, it has been solved in three levels to also blend into the [...]
PH3 House \ T38 studio + Pablo Casals-Aguirre
On an infill site, PH3 isolates itself from the context, a gated community in Tijuana mostly made up of California style mcmansions. It is a 3 layer structure that is set on the street side of the sloping site, shifting towards the back in both scale and openness. Closing itself to the street for privacy, [...]
