Eames chair coasters

March 12, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Filed under Furniture, Industrial Design

A nice place to sit your drink down.  (It’s funny because it works on more than one level!  Not so grammatical, though.) — A.M.

Prickly inspiration

February 9, 2010 at 10:45 am
Filed under Furniture, Humor, Industrial Design

Since so many SEGDsters are trapped under giant drifts of snow, what better way to pass the time than looking at designs inspired by cacti? — A.M.

cacnews magazine stand by sintesi

Stack ‘em high, watch ‘em fly.

January 15, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Filed under Furniture

“The DIY frenzy seems to have carried over in to the new year with the craze being predicted to be one of the more influential of the year. This time around Baita Design creates these simple yet visually pleasing stack-able chairs with the ability to change seat and back colors. Materials used include stainless steel for the skeleton and polyamide and elastene fabrics. But, it is the colors that attracts me to this concept. Having the freedom to choose whatever shade i want to sit on is the greatest proof of individual liberty one will ever experience, probably.” — A.M.

Expandable chair

January 1, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Filed under Furniture

While this chair looks like it can flex and expand in almost any direction and size, wouldn’t you like to see the designer actually sit on it? — A.M.

Twinkle, twinkle, little coffee table

December 29, 2009 at 11:21 am
Filed under Furniture, Lighting

It’s a great conversation starter, but be careful with your drink. The new Wave coffee table, by sustainable interiors and furniture designers Because We Can, incorporates 640 bright white LEDs that are activated by movement over its surface. At rest, the LEDs twinkle softly. With movement, light patterns sweep outward and fade, growing stronger the closer the movement to the surface.

It’s also pretty and made with environmentally preferable materials: FSC-certified, zero-formaldehyde American-made maple plywood finished with a durable, low-VOC lacquer. The table consumes only 35 watts of power when lit—less than a single household light bulb.  – P.M.K.

Chair o’ dowels

November 10, 2009 at 11:10 am
Filed under Furniture, Interior Design

It’s a chair made of dowels.  What more is there to say? — A.M.

The Japanese bookshelf cabin

November 3, 2009 at 9:13 am
Filed under Architecture, Furniture, Interior Design

“The gold prize winner in this year’s JCD (Japanese Commercial Environment Designers Association) design awards for ‘communication design in the commercial environment’, Ben Nagaoka’s Yamakoya is a great example of creating space within a space.” — A.M.

Breathe in. Sit down.

October 27, 2009 at 8:25 am
Filed under Furniture, Interior Design

Yu-Ying Wu, a graduate from the Department of Industrial Design at the Taiwan-based Tatung University, designed a “breathing chair” that looks like a piece of carved ivory but collapses into a chair when you sit on it.  ”Based on professional calculation of the spatial structure, the tofu-shaped chair, coated with three layers of foamed plastic, can “automatically adjust” according to the weight and posture of the person sitting on it.”  Does it have an orientation or can you sit on any edge? — A.M.From tofu……to seating.