Tag: Bent Plywood
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The T-shirt Chair by Maria Westerberg Wins the 2011 Green Furniture Award in Sweden (Photos)
Swedish designer Maria Westerberg's T-shirt Chair won this year's Green Furniture Award. According to the jury, "the chair weaves together a meaningful story using worn textiles. This up-scaling of the classical
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Made from a Single Piece of Plywood, This Chair Redefines Simplicity
At the Meet My Project design exposition in Paris this week, simplicity was a major theme: boiling down products to their basics to get the most out of the materials used to make them. That's especially true of the work presented by
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London Design Festival 2010: Sebastian Cox, Sustainable Craftsmanship from Britain (Photos)
We met a charming young designer at Tent London this year, who also makes unique beautiful wooden furniture. Sebastian Cox is a furniture designer-maker based in Lincoln, who
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17 Wooden Watercraft: from Ships to Surfboards (Slideshow)
When you consider that Earth's surface has been calculated to be over 70% water, and about 30% of the planet's dry land area is forested, it's easy to see why humankind has harnessed one resource to travel across another.
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MICROFACTORY Fabricates Downloadable Design On Your Desk
Image via DK Ahn Rather than ship an object to your door or local store, imagine downloading the underlying info, procuring the materials locally, and then letting a machine build it. Maybe even on your kitchen table. This technology is not ready to
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Bend it Like Chissick: CNC-Cut Bent-Ply Bowls
Exploring the versatility and maximizing the functionality of one small sheet of birch plywood, designer Elil Chissick came up with "The Bend," a clever series of fruit bowls (though you could probably put some veggies in there, too, if you wanted to)
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Far Out, Man: Wing Chair by Michael Malmborg
With a nod to the past and a peek to the future, Michael Malmborg's WING Chair may just join the ranks of other classic loungers by folks with names like Eames and Jacobsen. We point it out not just as a fantastic-looking chair constructed with
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Modular Love and More Highlights of CO-Design
Courtesy of designklub comes a duo of great designs from the CO-Design exhibition (which we also mentioned yesterday), running right now through July 25 in Denver and featuring the work of Colorado-based designers. First is "Modular Love," a bent-ply
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It Slices, It Dices: Scando Family Table
The design of this Scando Family Table was inspired by the combination of Japanese living and watching how children relate to the floor in their daily activities. Eric Pfeiffer created a table that engages children and accommodates their activities,
