Posts Tagged ‘furnishings’

SkinBag

SkinBag is a range of clothing and accessories fabricated from synthetic human skin. The skin is latex that is molded with creases and a texture reminiscent of human flesh. SkinBag comes in a variety of colors, the most common of which emulate known values of human skin. According to the manufacturer,...

September 25th, 2009 | feature, rubber | Read More

InteracTable

Andreas Störiko designed the InteracTable in order to answer questions regarding the nature of work in the new millennium: Why does an increasing rate of media discontinuity block our thinking although it is the digital age? What should furniture that allows teamwork on the computer look like? What...

September 19th, 2009 | interactive | Read More

City Servings

City Servings are bowls made from metal washers and discs reclaimed from former industrial uses. Artist Tammy Roy crafts each bowl by hand, welding collections of the flat metal objects together to form graceful, shallow vessels. In her careful repurposing of common industrial materials bound for disposal,...

September 15th, 2009 | metals | Read More

Husque

Before 1857, the macadamia nut grew nowhere else except on the mid–east coast of Australia. Australia is the largest producer of the macadamia and generates a large amount of discarded shells. Queensland-based designer Marc Harrison seized this opportunity to reuse this waste material to create beautiful...

September 11th, 2009 | feature, fiber | Read More

Papton

Papton is a lightweight chair that emerges like origami from a folded composite panel. For their design of the chair, Fuchs + Funke sought to obtain maximum stability with minimum weight as well as unlimited functionality and sculptural form. The chair is therefore the result of a simple polygonal pattern,...

September 7th, 2009 | paper | Read More

Fabcell

Fabcell is a chameleonlike fabric that changes color when conducting an electric charge. Developed by Dr. Akira Wakita’s Information Design Laboratory at Keio University in Japan, Fabcell is a flexible, nonemissive fabric made of fibers dyed with liquid-crystal ink and conductive yarns. These materials...

September 4th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Mute Room

NASA invented Memory Foam over three decades ago in order to provide comfortable seating for astronauts who had to endure steep gravitational forces and spend days sitting in tight quarters. As its name suggests, the soft material conforms to the body of its user and leaves a temporary registration of...

August 24th, 2009 | feature, textile | Read More

Membrane

Membrane is a steel chaise longue that is virtually transparent. A single thread of stainless steel is wound in a continuous spiral, and then a force of twenty-eight tons is applied slowly and strategically to create its simple supine form. Surface and structure are one: there is no chassis; it is a...

August 18th, 2009 | feature, metals | Read More

Body Index

Designed by Sean Ahlquist, Body Index is intended to capture multiple body positions within a single form. The design utilizes software technology that generates physical fabric simulations defined by a geometrical surface and assigned certain cloth characteristics such as stiffness, stretching, and...

August 5th, 2009 | metals | Read More

Steel Tongue

Steel Tongue chair is inspired by the pierced tongue. The Project Import Export design is handcrafted with stainless-steel wire and recyclable aluminum strips. Adapting cradle-to-cradle concepts, Steel Tongue’s aluminum strips are easily disassembled and reusable on another chair with another shape....

July 30th, 2009 | metals | Read More