I, For One, Welcome Our New Furniture Overlords
Voices from the off 1 (2008) by Julian Göthe
Is that an alien being disguised as furniture or is it artwork by Julian Göthe?
This wonderful piece is part of Julian Göthe’s exhibition "Events during Flood" at the Galerie Buchholz in 2008 but just in case I’m mistaken let me just say I, for one, welcome our new furniture overlords: Link
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Luggage That Turns Into a Couch
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Dutch designer Erik De Nijs created Suited Case — a collection of four functional suitcases that can be linked together in the form of a couch. His goal was to give travelers a taste of home while away:
This concept came from a research on nostalgia during travelling. When a familiar object from home is taken with you on a trip you feel much more at ease. And which object is more familiar then your own comfortable couch.
The fabrics which are used to cover the suit cases emphasize the homely feeling. I searched for a combination of fabrics which amplify each other and which create a prominent image. By using prints on the large luggage and the pad on the hand luggage I tried to put down a lively picture.
The work will be on display at the upcoming Dutch Design Week in Eindoven. You can view more pictures at the link.
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The Secret Behind IKEA Tables: Honeycomb!
Ever wonder how IKEA makes their furniture sturdy yet light? The secret is the honeycomb skeleton inside their tabletops. National Geographic went inside an IKEA factory in Poland: Link
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A Chair Made Out of Drinking Straws
Photo: Scott Jarvie
But I wouldn’t suggest sitting in it — it’s an art piece rather than functional furniture. Scott Jarvie made the Clutch Chair out of 10,000 drinking straws after “a microscopic observation of the structural composition of trees and the directional properties of Capillary tubes….” You can view more pictures at the link.
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Foam Block Turns Into A Chair When You Sit On It
Yu-Ying Wu, a graduate student in industrial design at a Taiwanese university, created a foam block that turns into a chair when compressed. The holes in the block aren’t random — they’re carefully shaped and selected to fold into a specific pattern when the user sits on the chair:
Wu added that her other inspiration for a chair with holes came from plant cells. The appearance of the holes makes people believe that the chair can breathe. Moreover, for the movement of either sitting down, being seated or standing up, the chair can transform in accordance with sitting posture, acting as if it were breathing.
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Tetris Chair
Image: Gabriel Cañas
Mexican industrial designer Gabriel Cañas created this fiberglass Tetris-inspired chair. So far, it’s one-of-a-kind, so it’s not yet available for retail. Follow the link to Cañas’ portfolio for more odd furniture.
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Shopping Cart Chair
It might not be comfortable or all that functional, but this shopping cart chair is just undeniably cool. It can even work as a wheelchair if necessary. Instructables can tell you how to make one of your very own.
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Shark Beanbag Chair
Oh, I want one of these! Sit down in a shark’s open mouth to enjoy the latest marine nature documentary on TV. $19.95, beans not included. Link -via Unique Daily
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Outlet Wall Helps You Manage Cables
If you’re like me, you have a major problem with cables taking over your home life. Here’s a great, visually interesting way to overkill the solution -a whole wall of outlets.
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Pootre Art From Plum Trees
Peter Cook and Becky Northey started making what they call Pooktre, the shaped plum trees into art and furniture. They started by making trees into a coffee table and a mirror frame. The chair above is one of the greatest. They harvest the trees in the fall and make new art from the stumps, which make new growth.
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12 Terrifying Pieces of Furniture
Comfy furniture envelops you like a hug from a trusted friend. Then there are new designs that may haunt your nightmares! Pictured is a bench called Evolution by Nacho Carbonell. There are eleven more pieces that might be even more frightening! Link -via the Presurfer
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The Furniture Alphabet by Cody Haltom
Photo: Adam Voorhes
Designer Cody Haltom Ad agency The Butler Bros. (Thanks Marty!) created this set of alphabet for a Houston-based home furnishing store High Fashion Home, out of the furnitures in the store. Clever, ain’t it? Link – via Josh Spear
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20 Brilliant Bookcases
I could spend hours looking at the unique creations of furniture and industrial designers. Here is a wonderful collection of twenty strange, unusual and modern design bookcases. My favorite is this ‘Round Sofa’ – which is yours?
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Tentacle-y Furniture by Chul An Kwak
There are furniture, and then there are artistic furniture. It’s often difficult to combine form and function, and it’s almost always impossible to do it in such an artistic form. Yet, Korean designer Chul An Kwak did just that with his tentacle-y table:
With serpentine legs that resemble nothing so much as octopus tentacles, the ‘r.n.i.’ series of tables by Chul An Kwak is actually inspired by images of running horses. Sculpted from wood, these designs offer the same sort of flat surface you’d see in a conventional table but with legs that seem kinetic and alive.
See more selections of amazing and artistic furniture designs at WebUrbanist: Link
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Tetris Furniture
If you love the game, chances are you’ll also love the furniture! Here’s a Tetris-inspired line of furniture, by designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov.
Just don’t stack ‘em right – they’ll go poof and disappear into thin air!
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Dual Quad: Fred Baier's Robot-Like Desk
Fred Baier said that his furniture are inspired by "industrial imagery," but we’re pretty darn certain that the deks above, nondescriptly titled Dual Quad, is some sort of a hidden robot that will rise and quash humanity for not using coasters when setting down their drinks on the lacquered birch countertop.
If you’d like one, it’ll set you back £11,000: Link via Gizmodo
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Dino Bone Pillows
Technically, they’re “soft interior objects,” not pillows, and they’re made out of rubber-coated foam. Pillows or not, they look pretty cool. Sayaka Yamamoto is the artist, and her site is full of her fun and quirky designs – all beautifully made, I might add.
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Sit on a Masterpiece: the Mona Lisa Chair
A parody, spoof or useful seating device – you choose. The Mona Lisa chair is certainly humorous, particularly as you will find yourself sitting right on the famous woman herself.
The frame becomes the framework for the chair – and the possibilities of adapting and customizing the classic image are endless. Next up: Van Gogh benches?
The Shakers used to hang their chairs on the wall to get them out of the way when they needed to shake. We have also previously shown Dror Benshetrit’s neat cantilevered chair that flattened out and hung on the wall. Now Korean designer Kwang Hoo Lee does them one better by turning the chair into a work of art.
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Is This Clock Cool or Creepy?
I’m a little torn on how I feel about this clock. It’s kind of awesome, but I also think I would probably wet the bed if I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that silhouetted in my dark bedroom. Creepy! It’s $9,000, so I don’t think I’ll have to worry about it showing up in my room any time soon.
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Book Vases
Graduate designer Laura Cahill makes vases and furniture…from books. Cahill, who uses books from secondhand stores, found that old books are very difficult to recycle because of the glue used in the binding process. Instead of letting these old books collect dust or sit in a landfill, she uses a band saw to cut profiles from the tomes and wraps the spines around test tubes to form waterproof vases.
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Pile-of-Blocks Chest of Drawers
Not only does this chest of drawers function and look cool, it’s made from reclaimed lumber. Plus, I think the various-sized drawers would come in really handy. Love it!
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Got Old Glass? Break Them and Build Anew!
Smash your Tiffany lamp, destroy your colored glass bottles and arrange them to create an amazing mosaic.
Yet another brilliant way of blending sustainability with style, these recycled glass countertops do more than simply reuse materials (being composed of 85% glass) – they also tell the story of their origins, from beer bottles to safety glass. The results are always unique one-of-a-kind designs.
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Furniture for Your Next Barroom Brawl
Have you even wanted to stage a saloon fight in your home, but you don’t really want your guests to get hurt? Here’s the perfect solution: a series of tables and chairs made to look like Western saloon furniture, but made of soft material.
The series is called "Hit it" and it was designed by Johannes Hemann, Leslie Hildebrandt and Kai Linke.
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Crazy Jet and Rocket Powered Vehicles
Ever wondered what it would be like to travel in a jet-powered porta-potty? Me neither. Seeing someone else doing it still is interesting though. It’s every ten year old boy’s dream come true -a whole collection of jet and rocket powered vehicles, including fire trucks, recliners, tractors and more. Plenty of speed record holders here kiddos, so click the link and have fun exploring the speedy side of life.
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Now That's a Chair!
Photo: Alexander Natruskin / REUTERS
Times may be tough for regular Joes like you and me, but the Russian fat cats are partyin’ like it’s 1999 in Moscow’s annual Millionaire Fair. The Russian capital is home to 60,000 millionaires and 30 billionaires (in fact, it has more rich people than any other cities on Earth) – and conspicuous consumption seems to be their mantra.
REUTERS has an interesting photo gallery of this year’s Millionaire Fair (which is filled with beautiful young women looking bored!). This one above is a chair fit for fat cats or super villains, designed by Raw Design: Link – via Oddly Enough
Other Links: BBC News photo gallery of the 2006 Millionaire Fair | ABC News photo galllery
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The Couch Doctor
Meet Sal Giangrande, the self-styled "Couch Doctor" of New York. Sal has a pretty unique business niche: he saws and re-assembles couches for people who couldn’t fit their old couch into their new apartments but don’t want to give up either one:
‘I can’t watch," said Andrew Clarke, shutting his eyes.
"You shouldn’t," the doctor said calmly.
The doctor’s assistant pulled out an electric saw. He started slicing. The ground was already strewn with staples that had been yanked out. After one, two, three . . . seven incisions, Clarke’s $4,000, perfectly worn-in, brown leather couch lay in pieces with the 88-inch-long back surgically separated from the arms and bottom. Clarke’s cherished couch looked like a dissected moose.
"Gosh," he mumbled, his eyes wide, "whatever it takes."
Sal Giangrande calls himself the New York Couch Doctor, but in fact he’s New York’s Doctor Whatever It Takes for desperate people like Clarke, who couldn’t shimmy his old couch into his new apartment and wasn’t willing to give up either one.
The young real estate executive was moving from one apartment to another in the same brick building in the heart of west Greenwich Village. The new place was bigger and had a spectacular view of the Hudson River but was situated in the middle of a narrow hallway.
"The movers tried several times, several angles, but they couldn’t get the couch around the turn from the hallway into the new place," Clarke said. He was ready to dump it when his doorman told him about the Couch Doctor — aka Sal Giangrande.
Geraldine Baum of the Los Angeles Times has more on this fascinating story about New Yorkers and their sofabsessions: Link
(Photo: Carolyn Cole/LA Times)
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Furniture by Stanislav Katz
Chest of Drawers by Stanislav Katz
Book shelves with a built-in bench
There are two reasons why we feature Stanislav Katz’s website:
1. The amazing furniture that he made, like the curvy Chest of Drawers and the bookshelf with a built-in place to sit back and read.
2. The title of his website: In Soviet Latvia, Design Makes You!
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Cactus Chair
As part of the China Chair Project art exhibit, artist Xiang Yun created this chair and footstool shaped like a prickly cactus from a hand-molded silicone!
Why, it’s the perfect chair for a house guest who has overstayed his welcome … Link
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