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Burojet – Stick Chair

Burojet’s latest project is the Stick Chair – an “ode to antique spindle chairs constructed with turned wooden parts.” The profiles of the spindles are meant to contribute to the comfort of the chair, in that they follow the shape of the human body.

Olivier Grégoire – Eclosion

How bizarre is this? A daybed/sofa that can be zipped up to save space? The Eclosion is designed by Olivier Grégoire. “Pump up according to your mood.”

Via Blue Ant Studio.

Naughtone – Hush Chair

Naughtone’s newly launched Hush Chair is a pretty awesome take on the classic arm chair. The Hush has a molded plywood frame, and is padded with CMHR foam and then upholstered.

Via Design Milk.

Judith Seng

Judith Seng’s wood stools are a beautiful juxtaposition of natural and fabricated. Made from a rough piece of wood that is sanded and shop-sprayed on top, the fabricated begins to devolve into its natural state as you move towards the base.

Via MoCo Loco – images by Jaime Kopke.

Design Academy Eindhoven and Leolux

Not much information to be found online about this project but the students at Design Academy Eindhoven have come up with some gorgeous pieces of furniture for Leolux. The projects are on exhibition from September 26 – October 4 at Woonbeurs in Amsterdam.

Via designboom.

John Green – Embrace Table

John Green’s Embrace table is gorgeous! Sleek lines and a multi-functional design. It incorporates storage, seating and a possible side table. It’s available in a variety of materials, including cherry veneered plywood and glacier white corian. The packaging is pretty awesome, too.

Via Notcot.

Studio Nola

I like the way that Scott Voelker’s EDO bookshelf look like three floating rectangles. I would love to see the steel structure set back even more to really play up the floating boxes. Check out Studio Nola’s website for more furniture.

Maezm

Love this pair of products by Maezm – Table Dish Cover and Sofa-Dress. Both explore the suggestion of what is beneath them. Maezm’s Sofa-Dress transforms an existing chair into an arm chair, while still revealing the original form below.

The Table Dish Cover is like a portable picnic blanket – you can spread it out anywhere, fill up each dish with food, and wash it when you’re done. Fun!

Via Designboom.


Bram Geenen’s – Gaudi Stool

The structure on the underside of Bram Geenen’s Gaudi Stool is just amazing. It’s made of lightweight carbon fiber and weighs only a kilogram. From Geenen’s website:

The shape of the stool was defined in the same way that Antoní Gaudi designed the structure of his churches; by making a model out of hanging chains, and so letting gravity determine the strongest shape for taking forces.

A thin shell made of carbon fiber deals with the compressive forces. There’s a beam-grid substructure which resist bending of the shell. The substructure was made using rapid-prototyping techniques, to achieve the required complexity. The rapid-prototyped structure was then used as a mold for the carbon-fiber laminates. This combining of these two high-tech techniques decreased costs of both of them, and made them applicable in a functional product.

Via MoCo Loco.

Gitta Gschwendtner

More great work by Gitta Gschwendtner – Wedge Racer doorstops, and Bag Stools – woodcrete stools commissioned for the Design Museum Tank.