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The Stoudt Englishman was pushed back a little this past week due to a few other small projects, but nonetheless, the carcass is close to completion! Just need the separator for the long back storage and the door cabinet, and then it’s on to drawers! These photos came out kind of funny, so I had [...]
So, first off, that title is suppose to be a clever combination of furniture and evolution, which failed and became furniture revolution…Wittiness aside, I happened upon Le Lab, a “multidisciplinary designers collective from Eindhoven, Netherlands”. They’ve created a series called Origin of Pieces, which is a far better example of wordplay than I can develop.
There is a great artistic sense here, they have functionality as furniture, but then they have this great, weird aesthetic that is in a lot of art that I love. It reminds my of something Bruce Nauman would do if he became an industrial designer. Or stuff that Matthew Barney would make if he didn’t have a massive art-making budget.
More selected items and thoughts after the Jump!
Architecture/Design Firm form3 just had a feature on Design Milk in regards to their DeCrali House, but upon reading the post, I saw the furniture inside, and of course, I was into it. Turns out form3 also designed/made/laid out everything, and to a certain extent, you can really tell. The matching lines and bump-in/bump-out patterns [...]
I glued up the top for the new media console yesterday, so The Stoudt Englishman is officially underway. Originally i wasn’t going to wrap the entire top in walnut, but then I decided to go for it. Here’s a photo of it all clamped up: There are great straight lines with all of the multi-ply [...]