Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space

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This Ghent house has an irregular shape that curves around existing trees. As a result of the unusual shape, much of its furniture was built especially for the house, including a wooden storage wall in the kitchen that holds cabinets and shelving. |London studio Pearson Lloyd has teamed up with furniture brand Profim to create a workplace seating system that is both reconfigurable and recyclable. More Amy Frearson Among other secondary materials in furniture making, glass has been used in the form of mirrorglass or as a purely decorative, illusionistic element in cabinets and writing desks. Italian craftsmen have made glass furniture; that is, wooden furniture covered with silvered glass in various colours. Ivory and other forms of bone were used as inlay material in Egyptian furniture. During the 17th and 18th centuries, ivory was widely used for inlay work in cupboard doors and table tops and expensive Continental furniture. A hotel in Paris' Marais area was turned into an apartment by Network of Architecture, which added custom-made oak furniture to the Nikolai Paris home.

The largest event taking place at Milan design week is Salone del Mobile, located at Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 18 to 23 April 2023.For example Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-Valise, a reproduction of some of his famous work into a miniature version kept in a bespoke suitcase that works like a miniature museum: “Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase,” (1952). Other examples include Robert Golber Untitled, 1997 which used a suitcase as a gateway to a private world, and Yin Xiuzhen’s Portable City series, depicting famous cities in a suitcase using clothing items, where the ‘suitcase becomes the life support container of modern life’. Return to text Since I've always advocated for mushrooms it was only right that we made a cactus with [the studio]," said the musician. The wood detailing inside the house matches its wooden facade, while large windows provide views of the surrounding forest. Daily updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Plus occasional news. Dezeen Jobs Weekly In general, furniture produced in the past 5,000 years has not undergone innovative development in any functional sense. An Egyptian folding stool dating from about 1500 bce fulfills the same functional requirements and possesses the same basic features as a modern one. Only since the mid-20th century, with entirely new synthetic materials such as plastic and completely new fabrication techniques such as casting, have there been signs of a radical revision of the concept of furniture. General considerations Materials Wood

At the students’ exhibition of models and drawings at Crisis Oxford, it was the combined psychological and practical design approach that caught public attention. Andrew Gant, Leader of Liberal Democrats on Oxford City Council, offered the following comment: “Big hostels have their problems, and new homes tend to be built out of the city centre, where people are far away from the services they need…. Obviously you would have to think carefully about the practicalities of something like this [the students’ proposals], but it is a great idea and brilliant to see young people being so involved in this issue that resonates very strongly with everyone.” Rachel Lawrence, who manages Single Rough Sleeping services for Oxford City Council, added that the work suggests a deep understanding of homelessness issues; one which takes into account the psycho-social trauma and not only the need for a “roof over the head”. Notes & Citations With a design resembling a gaming chair, the prototype features a seatbelt, horn and hi-fi music system "to give those who work in an office a feeling of what it's like to have a car from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles as your workplace," said the brand. Design Week can be found in the Cinque Vie district in Milan, a Medieval quarter close to the Duomo cathedral.

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Design plays a principal role in our lives, and so do the designers. Our surroundings have immeasurable instances of design within them. Some were right, yet many failed to deliver to the user. The book by designer Scott Berkun offers a new way to think about the world. He makes a compelling case for the importance of design. Exhibited pieces included an alternative tableware collection created by Abloh for Italian brand Alessi, which features stainless steel cutlery crafted to mimic the appearance of everyday hardware tools. Conventional use of this design approach is imbedded in caravan or sailing boat design, and appear also in architecture, for example in Frank Lloyd Wright’s domestic architectures distribution and internal orientation with overlapping ‘functions’, and Adolf Loos’s Raumplan with the vertical progression of social hierarchies. Return to text