The Within chair, designed by Swedish furniture designers Studio Vision is an unassuming block of wood, until you crack it open to reveal the delicious faceted wooden interior. Much like this school designed by Singaporean architects RSP Architects, only instead of wood, the black block opens up to reveal a glassy facade.
Imagine having a drink in the stomach belly of a fossilized beast. The familiar images from the classic movie Aliens comes to life in this bar created by the same great mind, H.R. Giger. This H.R. Giger bar is located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, took four full years to complete.
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By utilising wood laminates on particle board, Bethan Wood’s furniture elevates the oft overlooked material in a ‘pallet-like’ stackable aesthetics that I love so much.
The Dual Cut chair and ottoman fits neatly into each other, because they were cut out from the same piece of foam. Beautiful when you are lounging, and practical when you are not, this is perfect for the small apartments that most of us live in. by Kitmen Keung.
Splitting a raw rectangular foam block with only two L-shaped cut lines, Dual Cut is a transformable furniture piece that employs the simplest production processes true to the materials in use with minimal wastage. It features two ergonomically comfortable seat back angle options of 6° and 23°, and the multi-formation ability to form a one seater with a side table, a chaise lounge or a corner table. It also easily forms a neat, compact parcel for convenient storage and transportation. Dual Cut is available in Light Grey and Dark Grey with a 3-layer-system coating making it suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. Dimensions: stacked, w80 x h80 x d93cm; chaise lounge, w80 x h80 x d170cm; ottoman, w80 x h40 x d77cm; seat height 40cm.Produced and distributed by Sixinch.
Korean designer Minwoo Lee takes inspiration from traditional Korean tops and updates them with steel and solid ash wood.
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Brussels-based designer Marcial Ahsayane designed the most precious letterbox, which looks after and water its very own plant with a sloping roof. via Contemporist
I am loving the strong graphic lines of the M3 Chair designed by Thomas Feichtner. It is made by hand out of only Oak (No nails!) yet manages to look both delicate and strong both at the same time.
I have always been intrigued by the glass bottles of snake in wine commonly found in chinese medicinal halls. HongKong designer Kobo Sin finds a way to move real flies, intestines, bones and reptiles into your living room in a strange, freakish yet alluring way.
Exploring human’s relationship with nature. We are losing touch with the natural world around us. The aim of this project is to confront and shock people by turning unwanted and unused parts of nature into provocative products and pulling nature back into people’s minds.
By incorporating elements of the animal world into a whole series of decorative furniture and lighting. Using those parts normally thrown away or ignored. The result is a set of freakish lights and a coffee table that both appeal and repulse. The style is purposely kept simple to make the nature stand out.
Florian Schmid has created these intriguing stools with a new material know as Concrete Canvas. It combines the softness of cloth with the stability of concrete. Once brought in the final shape, you just have to water the material and within 24h it will alomst harden out completely.
A gorgeous collaboration by furniture manufacturer Vitra and fashion house G-star Raw, reinterpreting and in some cases re-imagining some of the most classic pieces of furniture by French designer Jean Prouvé. My favourite of the series must be the wooden stool, finished off with the signature two circles in a darker wood.
Prouvé RAW presents a collection of Jean Prouvé furniture classics – newly interpreted by denim specialist G-Star and Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra in collaboration with the Prouvé family. Born out of a mutual passion for this French Modernist’s iconic designs, the G-Star and Vitra creative teams have worked for two years to give some of Jean Prouvé‘s best known designs a fresh and contemporary look and feel, while re-discovering the charm of some of his lesser known pieces.
A cool little thing… marking the point where you stopped in a book and giving you a surreal space to store it as well! Buy it at Sleek Identity.
I love these chairs by Danish designers busk+hertzog for Globe Zero 4. Something about the shape… or maybe its the colour… via Contemporist
These beautifully handmade and tactile stools are design by Claire-Anne O’Brien.
Inspired by elements of the knitted stitch itself such as rings and loops, the structures are revealed and celebrated through exaggerated scale in bold and textured forms. Lambswool and Sheeps wool, in a mix of hand and machine knit stitches, are constructed into playful statement pieces.
Palo Samko is a woodworker in NYC who made these beautiful surrealistic clock inspired by Salvatore Dali.
Designed by Fort Standard, this gorgeous Terrarium is a perfect for bringing in some nature into the home.
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Having just visiting the Dali exhibit at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, I was enamoured by a small section of furniture produced from sketches by Dali. Now Spanish furniture company BD Barcelona Design is reproducing some of those amazing pieces, but in all black versions. Wow. Surreal AND chic.
In the Paris of the 1930s, Salvador Dalí (1904/1989) surrounded himself with a circle of friends working in the application of art to a number of varied disciplines, beyond the study of purely pictorial art. One of these, Jean-Michel Frank, an acclaimed furniture designer and decorator in Paris at that time, got on extremely well with Dalí, and together they developed a number of ideas. One example of this is the Bracelli lamp, a classic design in Jean-Michel’s manner of designing and working that Dalí adopted for his home in Port Lligat. Among Dalí’s projects, which add to his CV as a designer, are the garden furniture for his home in Port Lligat, the complete architecture of the Night Club (in the shape of a hedgehog) for the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco (1957) and a project for a bar in California in the 1940s. His creations were not limited to traditional furniture elements, but included taps, handles, knobs, prints and objects of indeterminate use. In 1933, Dalí even registered the patent for the design of a bench as an outdoor seat. In the 1990s, a team of experts led by Oscar Tusquets set out to bring to life the furniture that Dalí had sketched for Jean-Michel Frank, including the Leda chair and low table taken from the 1935 painting “Femme à latête rose”. The sculptor Joaquim Camps was responsible for breathing life into them and Bd Barcelona design took charge of their worldwide exclusive production and marketing.
I love this series of tables by Fredrikson Stallard, a duo based in the UK. Check out their other works, where they experiment with furniture and product design like no other.
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