Industryindesign

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Grab this one while you can...scissor action Tensa table from Industryindesign

Check out this new concept table design from our own Industryindesign stable. The Tensa coffee table uses a mix of materials to suit any interior scheme and would be available in a choice of colours or finishes.Shown here with a sage green centre shelf unit and a tinted glass top with stainless scissor frame.

The central frame section uses the weight of the glass top to act as a scissor action to grab the central shelf section, creating a visual as well as actual tension to the piece. Not as yet in production more this table remains as a cad rendering for now. Check out more furniture design concepts by visiting our Industryindesign design concept page on our website and let us know what you think.

More contemporary furniture and design at http://www.kevinhallsworth.co.uk/ the website of Kevin Hallsworth designer and maker of contemporary bespoke furniture and creator of the Industryindesign collection.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Eco design from further afield with the farmline chair............

Finnish designer Timo Hoisko has created the Farmline chair out of a single metal tube and locally-produced hemp fiber.

Designer talks....'I believe in sustainable development, and in the design our products we should promote nature-conserving renewable materials. I wanted to design an ecological chair using locally-produced hemp fiber, a rare material in the furniture industry that I believe would create new opportunities in furniture design.

Hemp fiber is an ecological material, as it is cultivated and processed locally at a near-by farm. This is carried in the name itself: ”Farmline”. Hemp fiber can be recycled thanks to its adhesive (PET), enabling us to reuse it for good instead of throwing it away: thus its life cycle does not end in the litter box, as all of its materials can be recycled and then re-introduced in production.

The body of the chair consists of only a single metal tube that runs in a threadlike fashion around the chair, forming three legs. The cuplike seat is attached to the body from the front and from the backrest, and the chair’s skeletal structure allows it to be stacked.'

Not sure how you recycle this chair?....do you crush it or maybe partake in it's content???

New design at a stretch...no strings attached......

At this year’s SaloneSatellite show in Milan, Jessica Carnevale, who was exhibited her Stretch collection of seating, made with latex, bungee and rope.

American designer, Jessica Carnevale, studied industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2003 she was selected for the European Honors Program to live and study in Rome for a year. Alongside her studies in Art History she worked in the design studio of WalzWork Inc. In any spare time she worked in the studio of a traditional upholsterer and woodworker. It was here that she built a collection of upholstered wooden furniture that was shown at the Palazzo Cenci. In May 2004 she graduated with honors from RISD winning the Excellent Student Award. A desk light made from hand-spun metal was shown in RISD’s Juried Senior Invitational Exhibition.

Martha Stewart then recruited her to design products and so Jessica moved to New York. Over the next four years, she designed for West Elm, Anna Sui and Alexandra Champalimaud before becoming head designer for Brocade Home, creating a new brand for Restoration Hardware.In 2007 she opened her studio in Brooklyn, where, in her spare time, she continued to develop furniture in both wood and metal, always exploring new materials and techniques.

For the past two years, Jessica has been working at the Marcel Wanders Studio in Amsterdam. Under his direction, she has designed a limited edition collection of crystal for Baccarat, a Christmas collection for Target, ceramic tiles for Bardelli, a Senseo machine for Philips and varied collections for Moooi. For Salone 2010, she has developed new items for Magis, Skitsch, XO and Cappellini. Altogether, over 100 items are currently in production.

Jessica’s approach to design is driven by the material – wherever she seeks inspiration, be it fashion or industry, she tries to combine materials in new and beautiful ways.Jessica is relocating to London in May 2010 to open a studio, where she will continue to produce unique furniture and products.

Reminds me of those string pictures everybody seemed to have in the seventies...not sure I want to be reminded though.

New table from Charlie Davidson with real punch...no holes barred either....

peppered table

U.K-based designer Charlie Davidson's new 'peppered table' follows in the aesthetic of his previous 'Cool chair' by exhibiting a punched metal aesthetic. the tale design employs the services of a laser cutter, simplifying the manufacturing process through a 'design by laser' approach. 'peppered table' was exhibited at Designersblock during this year's milan design week.

cool chair

Unforgetable?...the memory chair foils us all...........

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has designed 'memory' chair for italian company moroso.

'Memory' is a chair of unlimited forms. its design is completed through the alteration of its silhouette. for the project, Yoshioka developed a special fabric made with recycled aluminum,which he has used to create a chair that transforms and memorizes its shape upon use.

From the designer

'Based on a concept which I conceived several years ago, we spent more than one year conducting experiments and verifications by making more than 50 actual scale models with aluminum. also for the fabric, I searched the most appropriate fabric that can realize the initial concept image, and I finally came to develop a fabric with recycled aluminum. after repetition of trial and error, 'memory', a chair that transforms and memorizes its shape by the intention of users, was completed. 'memory' has 'a deliberate loose form'.(...) I believe that the chair could be called 'a chair without a design.' at the same time, this is a chair that has an unlimited variety of forms.' - TY

See more at the designers web site

More contemporary furniture and design at http://www.kevinhallsworth.co.uk/ the website of Kevin Hallsworth designer and maker of contemporary bespoke furniture and creator of the Industryindesign collection.

Ongo...nobody ever says ongo

ONGO is a young German company, whose main product is a stool that they are promoting as both furniture and exercise equipment.

The ONGO Seat has a curved footprint and a built-in ball track at the base, which follows every movement of the seated occupant. The movement of the seat is transferred directly to the ball. Each position change creates an acoustic feedback through the rolling noise, which encourages movement to prevent tension, strengthen back muscles and improve posture.

Put your arms together for the hug chair by Kate and Nelson

Swedish designers Kate and Nelson launched this interesting chair at Milan recently

Designer speak....

At first sight the assembled Hug does not appear to be a flat-pack low chair. We have taken the best possible advantage of the strengths of formpressed techniques to create a sturdy low chair with flat-pack design principles when developing Hug. It is created out of a single formpressed sheet and requires no complex tools to assemble, just the buttons which function not only as decoration but most importantly; they hold the chair together.