Groovy Disco Chair

I think this would be awesome in a bachelor or bachelorette’s pad. The chair is made up of 200 linear meters of Electroluminescent wire, the “Disco Chair” is perfect to re-create a disco-esque atmosphere. The chair was designed by Kiwi & Pom.

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The Ionic Bench

While studying the History of Architecture, my favorite column to draw was the Ionic column. So when I saw this bench by Laurie Beckerman, it immediately caught my eye.

Notes from the designer:

It’s inspired by the capital of an Ionic column.  Instead of the look of dense stone, I wanted to extract the lines of the form to create a light, spacious and resilient bench in which a person sits in the middle — framed on either side by two big luxurious scrolls.

Made from 1″ thick Baltic birch plywood, the bench’s profile is cut out 18 times with the use of CNC technology.  The slices are laminated together for a strong, curvaceous form.  The surfaces that reveal the plies are finely sanded, and coated with a high-quality Italian acrylic;  the result is a seat that is sensuously smooth to the touch.

Fiore Sofa

The Fiore sofa adds a certain femininity to a poolside due to its design and countless configuration possibilities. The sofa was designed by B-alance, a Swiss design company. It won for a category for the Red Dot Awards in 2009. The sofa is handmade, made also with an aluminum frame and synthetic rattan…perfect for the outdoors.

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“Clamp”: lit and tufted

I remember back in college we had to draw a Chesterfield sofa for a mid-term exam, since then I never forgot how it looked like. The “Clamp” is a pendant lamp designed after said sofa by a couple of designers named Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di Filippo from DZstudio.

A lamp to show your favorite things

A pendant lamp designed solely to house miniature collections that you’d like to show off and become conversation pieces over hearty meals. I’m sure this is what designer Chen Karlsson had in mind while designing this wonderful lamp. Check it out.

Soft Wood Chair: Had me fooled

Yes look hard. The chair looked completely upholstered and soft but in reality it’s carved wood, made to look like an upholstered seat and back with tuftings. Clever huh? This was what designer Veronika Wildgruber had in mind when she created this line of chairs.

Soft Wood was created to illustrate how wood cannot be both soft, and comfortable. This series of chairs separates the material from its perceived  characteristics which now only become apparent on closer inspection. Soft Wood plays with reality. It shows that you cannot always rely on your perception. At first glance these are simple upholstered stools, but then you see that they are in fact crafted from wood, yet they are still as comfortable as the perceived soft chair.

The Pluto Bench

Check out these plush circle seating goodies from the American furniture manufacturer Leland International designed by Simon Pengelly.

Based on looks alone, these would definitely add a much needed “oooomph” to an otherwise drab waiting area but my only concern is the level of comfortability. The absence of a back rest makes it not conducive for prolonged sitting.

Classroom Furniture gets a doze of style

 

If only classrooms here in the Philippines can benefit from new furniture pieces such as these from Steelcase Inc. Students would have been more driven to study. Wouldn’t it be great?

A lounge true to form

The main idea of my seating furniture was to design a lounge chair with a clear and simple form, which allows to combine it with different types of furnitures as well as to place it as an eyecatcher in a room. The lateral view of the chair outlines a square (hight and length have the same dimensions), its front view two squares – one above the other and half the size of the lateral square (wood and cushion). The curved angles between the straight parts of the wood construction connect the whole chair in a fluid and dynamic way which stays in contrast to the overall rectangular silhouette.
Changing the colour or pattern of the cushion, which is just inserted in place from the side, allows you to get different variations.  The wood construction as well allows more than just one possibility – one is, as shown on the enclosed pictures, to build it with solid wood angles and veneered straight parts. A second option is to make the whole construction out of bonded veneers, which means that the texture of the wood goes orthogonal in comparison to the prototype shown in the pictures..

This is what the designer of the lifestylings.zürich’s lounge chair had to say about their lounge chair design. Upon first look when I saw the picture was that the particular shade of green went well with the shade of the wood. The design looks stiff and a lounge is supposed to be comfortable, I hope the foam from the backrest compensates for the stiffness of the seat. What do you think?

3form = Ditto

My first reaction when I saw this product was of awe. These are actually x-shape pieces in different colors and constructed into shapes of infinite possibilities. It can be as grand and as massive as you can possibly allow it to be and the result will always be graceful and beautiful.

Designers are notorious for wanting things just so. Shamelessly enabling that craving is Ditto, an eminently customizable space-creating system. X-shape pieces 15 inches across are frugally shipped in a single package: 72 for dimensional wall decor, 144 for partitions, 216 for wall-to-ceiling canopies. Modules are molded from a proprietary resin that’s not only eco-friendly, with 40 percent postindustrial recycled content, but also malleable, allowing them to be gently bent with hardware after they’re snapped together with polycarbonate connectors. Choose from 33 colors, which can be combined for a grand total of 10,000 possible effects. Bespoke in a flash.

source: Interior Design, 3form

CH Bench

It seems that multi-configuration furniture is all the rage nowadays. CH Bench is the brainchild of Jeff Miller for Itoki Design.

A one-piece plastic form to be used in multiple configurations and settings, for seating and surfaces. CH can fit next to itself in myriad ways to create combinations for seating and meeting, with room enough on an adjacent unit to rest one’s belongings or use a laptop. The pieces nestle close even when one is up and the other down and are light enough to easily move around and stack for space saving.

The Loto Lamp

Taking inspiration from the naturally beautiful form of the lotus flower, Eugenio Menjivar, an industrial designer from El Salvador, transformed plastic waste into beautiful works of art.

LOTO is an organically inspired lamp series that takes its characteristics from the lotus flowers. Like inmaculate lotus flowers that grow within muddy swamps, Loto lamps are born from oceans of plastic debris. The Loto series is an eco-experimental body of work that transforms discarded household materials into precious objects, allowing plastic to be reborn to educate consumers about sustainable design.

On staircases…

Yesterday it took me so long to do the staircase details for one of the makeover projects in our office. It gave me quite a headache. Staircase details were never my strength. I must really make a mental note to study up on these. After much effort though, I finally finished with an hour to spare before going home yesterday. Woot!

After clocking out of the office, it took me 45 minutes to get home. Just in time to clock in to my home office and do my freelance work. Well, my task last night was to finish a 3d view of the souvenir shop inside the restaurant that I was doing. It was a 3d view that I was delaying on doing for quite a while now. I’ve been so uninspired lately. I would have wanted to be done by 10pm but I only finished a few minutes ago and it’s almost 11am the next day. It shouldn’t have taken this long to do but the internet has got me so distracted. Darn that Facebook and its games.

Mental note: must make a more efficient productivity schedule.

So the 3d is done and I’ve already sent an email. Now I can enjoy a few hours of my Saturday before I resume tonight with the Cad details.

Fab Circle Table

Etsy is fast becoming a haven of really talented and wonderfully creative designers. Michael Arras’ circle table is one such example.

The randomly cut solid wood slices are mitered and jointed strongly together. He assured that cups and glasses won’t fall on the cracks but will just slide easily.

The Color Red

Here’s a primer on the different shades of red commonly used in interiors. Now you can see the proper composition with regards to the proper color names.

• Alizarin Crimson – RGB (227,38,54) the cool hue of red that is biased more on purple than on orange in the color wheel, named after the organic dye alizarin
• Amaranth – RGB (229,43,80) the reddish-rose color from the flower of the amaranth plant
• American Rose – RGB (255,3,62) the color of the American Beauty rose, the official flower of the District of Columbia
• Candy Apple Red – RGB (255,8,0) the shade similar to the red caramelized sugar on candied apples
• Burgundy – RGB (128,0,32) the purplish red color of the wine from the Burgundy region of France
• Cardinal – RGB (196,30,58) the hue derived from the red cassocks worn by Cardinals
• Carmine – RGB (150,0,24) the deep red color from the raw unprocessed carmine pigment
• Carnelian – RGB (179,27,27) named after the color of the mineral chalcedony
• Chestnut – RGB (149,69,53) the indian red color from the nut of the chestnut tree, more of an earth tone combined with red
• Rose Madder – RGB (227,38,54) the commercial name used to designate the paint pigment extracted from the common madder plant
• Coral Red – RGB (255,64,64) the color representation of red corals
• Crimson – RGB (220,20,60) a deep red color combined with a little blue, based from the color of the dye from a scale insect.
• Fire Brick – RGB (178,34,34) medium dark shade of scarlet/red
• Fire Engine Red – RGB (206,22,32) the shade of red commonly used in emergency vehicles
• Rossa Corsa – RGB (212,0,0) the red international motor racing color of cars entered by teams from Italy
• Lava – RGB (207,16,32) named after the volcanic color of lava
• Lust – RGB (230,32,32) the most popular shade of lipstick, an attempt to portray the feeling of lust
• Vermillion – RGB (227,66,52) derived from the powdered mineral cinnabar, an opaque orangish red pigment used in antiquity