Rory03 tweetz:
“Nice little suite of furniture going for free at Broombridge station this morning #finglascabra #tins.”
Anyone?
Tag Archives: furniture
Green painted pallets used by Malka Architects to construct cheap, useable social space in downtown Las Vegas as part of the recent Life Is Beautiful music and art festival.
Embedded circles, useable voids, adaptable seating and not a triumphalist or tyke in sight.
Furniture that ‘looks and feels like human skin’ by UK artist Gigi Barker.
The ‘skin stool’ and ‘skin chair’ (made of soft, fleshy silicone impregnated with human pheromones, perfume or aftershave with optional removable mottled leather covers) sell for £440 and £1500 respectively.
Furniture maker Greg Klassen takes wood from dead trees or discarded edge pieces from construction sites, aligns the jagged edges and joins them with hand-cut pieces of glass to create the impression of miniature river and lake topographies.
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UK based artist Jessica Harrison’s ‘handheld’ series of miniature furniture, covered in material made from casts of her own skin and accessorised with tufts of hair.
…seeking to consider the relationship between interior and exterior spaces of the body. harrison re-imagines corporal components through a sculptural practice, offering an alternative way of thinking about our physical form.
Yeesh.
Sketchy
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These wire seats, benches and chairs, appropriately enitled “rough sketch products” were created by art student Daigo Fukawa for his 2013 senior thesis exhibition at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Useable, if not comfortable.
Panell Parnell Place, Cort Cork.
(Thanks Kevin)
The Beetle Chair by Maximo Riera.
The latest in the Italian designer’s ongoing series of zoological furniture.
Everything But The Manual is a LEGO/Meccano-esque DIY furniture concept from designer David Graas: 177 identical oak blocks that can be bolted together to form a variety of useful or decorative shapes.
There’s a video showing construction of several configurations here.