The Secret Behind IKEA Tables: Honeycomb!

Posted by Alex in Home & Garden, Video Clips on November 3, 2009 at 2:17 pm


[National Geographic Video]

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 Table Table

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Home & Garden on October 8, 2009 at 7:51 pm


Photo: Kamiya Design, Inc.

The components of this table and chairs set by the Japanese firm Kamiya Design spell out the word ‘table’. It’s part of an exhibition at the upcoming Nagoya Design Week, held from October 14-18.

Link via Gizmodo | Company Website | Nagoya Design Week

 
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Illusion Table by John Brauer

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Home & Garden, Pictures on September 12, 2009 at 1:58 am

Love, love, love this Illusion side table by designer John Brauer of Essey – the table is handmade from acrylic to look like a draped tablecloth! Design Year Book has more pics: Link – via FreshBump

 
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Auto-Cannibalistic Table

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on May 30, 2009 at 7:46 am

Most people want their furnitures to last, but not Ate Atema! His Auto-Cannibalistic Table (made in collaboration with designer Amy Campos) made from egg cartons and wheatpaste glue, is designed to be planted with herbs which "eat away" the table as they grow:

Why can’t a table eat itself? Tables support food, but why can’t they BE food too? The Auto-Cannibalistic Table understands that in nature energy and matter are in a constant state of transformation, cycling and recycling. It understands these facts and its design explicitly celebrates them. The Auto-Cannibalistic Table is made from paper egg flats, flour paste, soil and seeds, and when water is added, the seeds germinate and so the table begins to eat itself.

Inhabitat blog has more: Link

 
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Tentacle-y Furniture by Chul An Kwak

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Home & Garden, Pictures on May 1, 2009 at 4:09 am

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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Periodic Table-Table

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Home & Garden, Science & Tech on February 3, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Theodore Gray has created a rather uncommon table. He has transformed the Periodic Table of Elements into an actual table, a coffee table to be exact. But this table doesn’t just depict element names and numbers, it also stores samples of each.

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