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Farallon is a simple, elegant piece of furniture that offers additional functionality specifically addressing the needs of a contemporary lifestyle. A dining chair and side chair that contains hidden storage spaces and pockets, Farallon simplifies the clutter of technology, creating new surfaces for changing needs. The simple, clever design brings a sense of adaptability to seating through functions created directly from its continuous fabric seat.
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Natural lacquer is a fantastic material used in art craft that is created using a natural sap. The history of Japanese lacquer is very old and goes up to the Jomon period (5500 years ago). The “maki-e” lacquer, a product of the first part of medieval period, has fascinated even the courts of Western Europe and the oldest and most representative product of this genre, the Tamamushi, is still conserved in the museum of temple Horyuji and still has its original brightness. The first step in order to create a lacquer art craft is to prepare the base of plain wood: this is an operation made by the “plain wood craftsman”. It is not too much to say that the result of a lacquer craft depends on this first and important step. The next step is to apply the lacquer. Apply the lacquer and sharpen it: this is an operation that must be repeated many times and it requires a really great experience of the craftsman. Moreover, if the lacquer peels off or brakes, to apply the lacquer again in order to use that craft fo r a long time that could even be eternal.
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“Design … is an expression of the capability of the human mind to step beyond,” wrote the design theorist George Nelson in 1957, referring to the manifold possibilities that reside in human thinking, and which, ideally, find their way into products. Thus interpreted, design is a process of thinking whereby the onlooker creates the form of a product just as much as the person who created it. The French architect, Jean Nouvel, is constantly on the search for new forms to give expression to his designs, sounding the limits and possibilities of innovative materials and technologies in his work as an architect and designer. With the SKiN sofa, a design with a strongly avant-garde appearance, he now intends to give shape to something that is “essential” – a new kind of comfort is to be achieved through leaving things out.
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Architects Line is a practical solution for professionals who seek technology that allows them to incorporate the elements of a smokeless fire. The growing demand for an easy solution to fire resulted in the creation of a set of inserts that can be used indoors and out. The inserts from the Architects Line are easy to install since there is no need for a chimney or vent. They also require little maintenance as all the inconveniences connected with a traditional fireplace such as cleaning the hearth of soot and ash are eliminated.
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Inspired by a small, folding basket in a market in Bulgaria, designers Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichman envisioned this modern stunner. The Clip Chair by Moooi looks quite fascinating as is, but beyond its seated shape the Clip Chair folds into a flat form for easy carrying and storage. This modernized folding chair is made of sleek black beech wood, folding out to create a basket-like seat with a surprising level of comfort. While the price is just a touch higher than your standard steel folding chair, you can rest assured that very few others in the world will have any as nice as this…
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The h2o bench is one component of our winning design for the urban project competition for the main square of Valenciennes, a town in the north of France. Drawing from previous research on global urban conditions and “in-between situations”, the design concept is centred around the ideas of indeterminacy and instability. It offers opportunities for user appropriation by encouraging invention of activities and modification of the individual’s place in increasingly controlled social spaces.
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The piece is a response to the flooded, jungley environment we were suddenly thrown into when we went to work in Sri Lanka, and the culture shock we experienced. We wanted to take something of the feeling of the flooded environment home, a seed of the jungle to plant in your house which might invade it and take over. We took the image of partially submerged trees and translated it into shelves that have both the qualities of the overgrown lake that surrounded us and the quietness of European furniture.
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