Wings of Steel is a chair that plays with angles and curves, lightness and stability, opacity and transparency. From the side it seems to stand on tip toe before taking flight. The spaces between the strips create surprising optical patterns which continually change with the angle of light. Constructed from laser cut steel strips and [...]
This latest bench design by Peter Donders is nothing less than spectacular. Like much of his work it is graceful and curvaceous. Like a sculpture it lures us in to examine it from all angles and each view presents a new and extraordinary aspect of the design. To create the bench a simple tube has [...]
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 [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
